Canal+ and LaLiga signed an anti-piracy agreement on Sept. 11, 2026 that covers nearly 50 countries, joining their technology and investigators to shut down illegal football streams. The deal pairs one of Europe’s biggest broadcasters with Spain’s top football league, and it shows how hard rights holders are now pushing against the pirate services that […]
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The NFL played its first-ever regular-season game in Australia on Sept. 10-11, 2026, with the San Francisco 49ers hosting the Los Angeles Rams at the Melbourne Cricket Ground – and it streamed exclusively on Netflix. For the first time, a live NFL regular-season game was a Netflix exclusive, with no extra charge for subscribers. That […]
A VPN tunnel is the encrypted connection your device builds to a VPN server, and it is the single thing that makes a VPN useful for streaming. Every time you connect, your internet traffic gets wrapped in an encrypted tunnel, your real IP is hidden, and the streaming service you open only sees the VPN […]
A new UK report from the BeStreamWise anti-piracy campaign counts using a VPN to watch content that’s only available in other countries as illegal streaming. The definition sits alongside hacked Firesticks, torrents and social-media piracy in “The Price of Piracy,” which says illegal streaming costs UK broadcasters £1.35 billion a year. What Happened The report, […]
HBO Max lands in Japan on October 1 as a co-exclusive hub inside Prime Video and Hulu Japan. Warner Bros. Discovery announced the move on September 1, ending the service’s old exclusive tie-up with U-Next. For viewers it is the simplest legal route to HBO content in Japan yet. What Happened Warner Bros. Discovery said […]
Smart DNS is a lightweight workaround that makes a streaming service think you are browsing from another country, so you can watch geo-blocked shows on devices that cannot run a VPN app at all, like smart TVs and consoles such as the PlayStation or Xbox. It reroutes your device’s DNS requests through a proxy server […]
Belgium’s anti-piracy unit issued five new decisions this week ordering EU domain registrars and a registry to identify the people behind pirate streaming sites. The intermediaries must hand over names, bank accounts, crypto wallets and a year of connection logs, and they are barred from telling their customers. It’s a shift from blocking domains to […]
The Firestick is the most popular streaming box on the planet – and the most exposed. Every add-on, IPTV list and third-party app talks to your ISP in plain sight unless a VPN wraps it first. We tested five providers specifically on Firestick hardware: install ease, speed retention and app stability. 5 Best Vpns for […]
Sky Go is tied exclusively to the UK. Honestly, that means you can’t usually watch it while you’re hanging out in Spain because of those annoying geo-blocks. But the good news is, by using a top-tier VPN, you can mask your location and get around those barriers to watch Sky Go whenever you feel like […]