I have heard that there iptv services which are really private and don’t advertise openly and provide really great services. I don;t remember but i saw it here/reddit that they are available on private trackers’ forums. I am on Avistaz, bakabt, torrentleech and few others not worth mentioning. I would like to learn more about them so please let me know

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      I would be happy if they could tell me which private tracker they got it from. None of mine have any threads regarding this

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    They are often sold to non-tech people as fire sticks.

    There general use case is:

    1. You buy a fire stick from Amazon.
    2. You give it to someone that ‘hacks’ them.
    3. You transfer money to an account and are provided login credentials.

    The ‘hack’ is just enabling side loading on the Amazon stick and downloading an IP client. Takes two minutes and is easily done, but people charge £50 for it. You can do it yourself if you already have access to an IPTV provider.

    The difficult thing to do online is get access to the IPTV provider to purchase such a service. They don’t have any public online presence. They manage and sell their services through group chat apps like discord, telegram and some lesser know equivalent apps. The online way to get access to them is through someone you know.

    Refering people to these services is actively encouraged. The providers often offer discounts/free periods if you referral makes a purchase.

    The use of these services in the UK is so endemic that football channels now frequently advertise VPNs. Because it encouraged by the vendors of these IPTV sellers.

    These services are not legal. So there is little recourse if the quality of service is bad or they sell your account details to someone. They also don’t spend much on infrastructure, so you the streaming quality is often limited to 720p and will struggle to serve during sporting popular sporting events.

    No one is going to offer you it on here. Most people in this sub will be able to get better quality downloads for free. They also don’t want a public record of them using or distribution such service.

    I don’t use them and don’t recommend them, I also don’t like live sports which is their biggest selling point. As live sports is very expensive as so much is broken up between different legal providers.

    If you don’t know anyone that uses them, you’ll have to make some friends. Best place is sport events/pubs.

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      Hi thanks you for your detailed response. I am already familiar with the idea of the hacked firestick/settopbox thing. What i was mainly looking for was a provider. I also fully understand the fact that these are not legal but cable costs are high for what they are offering here. Someone mentioned a site but it got deleted and looks really good and what i was looking for. My main reason was live sports. as for public record i am familiar with using crypto so it’s not an issue.

      Best place is sport events/pubs -I doubt people would know about it in a third world country

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    Iptorrents themselves have one. I’ve never used an IPTV provider, nor do I care but ipt has one.

    My guess is they’re reselling the same one or two actual sources that are out there.

    I personally miss the hack/custom receivers out there where you’d just download the keys from forums and have your own, straight from the source.

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      I searched about and looks like they do have great service. If i don’t find anything better will definitely go with this one. On a side note it does seem that they have a bad history being a tracker. but will still check out.

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        Iptorrents is a rock solid torrent tracker, lots of stuff us free leech. When you pay for vip you get data credits that allow you to not have to worry about your upside down ratio… they also give you iptv during the subscription.

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          Iptorrents is generally despised due to the fact that you can pay your way. CABAL trackers will have much more niche stuff than possibly available at ipt. sure it’s good if you only want newer releases but trackers like popcorntime have much more seeded stuff and better releases since they encourage community contributing instead of chasing after money.

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            You can gatekeep alll you want. Some people would rather spend some cash for iptv than deal with torrent invites, I’m just answering the question about iptv and iptorrents in the original thread topic.

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              Nothing about gatekeeping man. people are free to choose whatever they find convenient. Have a nice day

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            Not the fact that you can pay your way, but how much they push it. It’s plainly and openly a for-profit enterprise, not just server cost reimbursement.

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    For sports, the mega thread has some stuff https://rentry.co/megathread-sports

    For a good IPTV service you really do need to know someone, I know a guy that has been reselling for over a decade and he’s only had one provider shutdown on him because they only sell to people they trust.

    When a provider gets too big that’s when law enforcement step in. Over the last few years there’s been a bunch of raids all over Europe so finding a provider has gotten more difficult and when people have one they don’t want to risk getting them shutdown by telling a stranger on the internet about it

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      I did check the megathread because my family wanted to watch today’s ICC worldcup but they aren’t that fluent in english. and there were good streams available in english only It sucks but i will try to get into some top cabal trackers and see if their forums have some sort of recommendations?

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      The problem i have with public services is that there is always a risk of them getting shutdown and well leaking customer info like IP addresses. Recently read an article on torrentfreak about consumers getting fined for using IPTV services so I am a bit skeptical. Ofcourse if anyone is willing to share the tracker name i will get into it myself

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          I am familiar with vpn and crypto but i wanted some high quality ones which people in cabal trackers use. someone mentioned a site It does look legit and something i was looking for ‘.m3u links’ which i can use in jellyfin

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            Jellyfin is not best player for iptv btw. I use tivimate and love it, free version vorks fine, but it doesnt play VOD and EPG. Lifetime sub is not expensive imo (35$ for 5 devices iirc). Kodi with some addon works as well

            With vpn you can use any provider. Most of them should offer 1-3 days test line for free and its easy to switch between them. Probably best to find local forum (in your native language) for contacts, but I think aliexpress works as well

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              I am more inclined towards opensource so there’s that. I will probably give kodi a try. Yes the one i got recommended by a guy in PM offers 3 days test for free. I will try tivimate but still a bit skeptical towards it. thanks

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    Generally, these are referral only and for people you know IRL, not just online. I’ve never seen any discussion of them

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      someone pm’ed one and i did try it. unfortunately the country’s channels i specifically want don’t work well enough. but most of the US ones are working perfectly fine