{"id":340831,"date":"2019-09-13T07:27:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T05:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=340831"},"modified":"2019-09-13T07:28:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T05:28:54","slug":"how-to-watch-the-rugby-world-cup-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/340831\/how-to-watch-the-rugby-world-cup-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch the Rugby World Cup for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So what\u2019s the best way to watch the Springboks play in Japan? Some say DStv is the only way, while others mention 3rd party sites they swear are legit. Others don\u2019t even flinch when they talk about pirate streams, and what about DStv Now password sharing?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/now.dstv.com\/livetv\/sport?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=September_Article&amp;utm_campaign=RWC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Click here to watch the Rugby World Cup safely.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The reality is actually really straightforward, but it\u2019s important to get it right because making the wrong choice could be very costly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">DStv is the only service with the rights to the RWC in SA. Anything else is dodgy. So that means watching via decoder or<\/span> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/now.dstv.com\/livetv\/sport?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=September_Article&amp;utm_campaign=RWC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>online using DStv Now<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Want to watch for free? Find a good pub or find an accommodating mate and camp out on their couch. Just keep an eye on those start times because all the Bok pool games kick off around midday SA time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But what about your friend that swears by this other site that looks legit \u2013 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> it\u2019s free?<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><b>What\u2019s the worst that can happen?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Think about it \u2013 the sites that distribute illegal content make money by selling ad space, often to malicious websites (aka \u201cmalvertising\u201d), or by using the site to distribute malware. This malware can give access to a user\u2019s computer, allowing hackers to steal sensitive information like banking login details or browsing history, get access to the webcam, encrypt all the information on the hard drive, or worse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A 2018<\/span><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3139240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>study<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> conducted at Carnegie Mellon University found:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe more our users visited piracy sites, we found,&#8230; the more often their machines got infected with malware. Specifically, whenever they doubled the time they spent on piracy sites, they increased the number of malware processes running on their machines by 20 percent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The study went on to say:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c&#8230;providing content for free is not an altruistic motive. These sites make money in a variety of ways \u2013 predominantly from advertising. Many of these ads though can carry malware, adware and other questionable tracking software \u2026 Some other sites are purely malicious. They host infringing content to attract the users and then infect their machines with malware, Trojans and other tracking software which is used for a variety of security breaches to turn into money.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><b>But I paid for this site!<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Illegal streams can be highly sophisticated and often look totally legitimate, even asking for credit card details. Just because someone pays to access a site doesn\u2019t make it a legal transaction, and these sites most definitely don\u2019t have the rights to the RWC in SA. Beware giving credit card details to a dodgy site.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><b>But surely VPNs are safe?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What about VPNs and overseas sites? The key point is this isn\u2019t legal and piracy detection systems are in place to find and shut these streams down &#8211; and if that happens there won\u2019t be a refund of the subscription.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On top of this, end-users themselves can be held legally liable for illegal viewing, resulting in major fines.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><b>What about password-sharing?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Password sharing for DStv Now is another alternative some have considered. For the person not paying for the DStv subscription, it seems to be a free ride, but what about the subscriber?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/now.dstv.com\/livetv\/sport?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=September_Article&amp;utm_campaign=RWC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>DStv Now<\/strong><\/a><\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is limited to two concurrent streams, so if just two additional people use their login details, the original subscriber may find themselves unable to keep up with the rugby. And if two people know those details, there\u2019s no guarantee they\u2019ve not been shared much more widely.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The safest thing for each DStv subscriber to do is to change their password and make sure they\u2019re able to get the return from their investment.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rugby World Cup is almost here, and this is the best way to watch it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":340833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[14245,26],"class_list":["post-340831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-connected-video","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340831"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340841,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340831\/revisions\/340841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}