free sport

[antnik]

can anyone help ( a sky technician ) i want to get rid of sky and buy a system that allows me to watch all the usual sport channels that we all see and enjoy whilst on holiday in spain/greece for free. There must be a way of getting them as sky broadcast them each week, but its just a matter of knowing how to receive them without sky knowing that we are ?

[ugly_bob]

Most of the bars in Spain/Greece have an account through a friend in the UK. Thus they can pick up Sky.

There are other systems abroad that pick up the Sky signal, then rebroadcast it through their own transmitter.

Fairly sure these are, at best, dodgy if not downright illegal.

[NORMANTHEDOG]

i have a skybox in cyprus and i use my sky card when we go. ugly-bob is right all the bars have there sky set up through friends in the uk.there is no other way.

[ugly_bob]

further to NORMANTHEDOG's answer, I think that the use of Sky outside the UK is not entirely legal. It's possible to pick the signal up, but the sattelite's 'footprint' is only designed for the UK.

I'm no expert, but I think European copyright laws come into efffect here somewhere.

Sky tend not to care too much since they're getting a subscription fee from the foreign bars/homeowners anyway.

In the Canaries (which is very much on the edge of the footprint of signal, and not officially part of the EU), there are companies that have large reciver dishes to get the signal from the Sky (BSkyB?) sattelites, then relay it through their own systems to subscribers.

Hence, when any bad weather comes across, the picture gets ******. The signal is weak there, so any atmopspheric interference ******* it completely