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Here in the UK, rights to the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series have gone to pay per view channel Premier Sports (nee Setanta Ireland). Now I wanted to subscribe to the service so I could watch and record the races on my VHS player (old-school, yeah 
), particularly the later night events.
All was fine till I stumbled across this in the Terms & Conditions on their website:
6. Copying and copyright
(a) You must not do any of the following:-
(1) Copy, redistribute or relay the Channels or any part of them or otherwise deal with the Channels or any part of them.
(2) Produce, supply or otherwise exploit any programme, service or content (whether audio or audio-visual or otherwise) using the Channels or any part of them or otherwise use any part of the Channels for any commercial purpose whatsoever; (3) Sell or make any charge for watching the Channels or any part thereof; or
(4) Show the Channels in public to an audience even if no charge is made or otherwise use the Service or any part thereof other than to view the Channels in private for non-commercial purposes at your Address.
(b) We may disable or alter remotely certain functions of your Digibox so as to prevent you from copying the Channels and we may prevent you from receiving the Channels if your Digibox allows copying of any Channels which we are bound by contract to prevent.
A bit more research revealed that Pay Per View channels use a service sometimes that means they can block your recording signal - stopping you from recording the program. Other channels such as Sky Box Office utilise a similiar facility so people cannot record some of their films.
So I thought, "Right, I'll stick to Sky Sports 1 hour highlight packages". Still, I got someone to phone them just to make sure. The guy on the phone line sounded a little confused and said that he didn't think there was a problem - which is interestting considering that goes directly against what the website says.
So what should I do? I don't want to waste £12 signing up for something I can't even save or record. Anyone else use the Premier Sports service? Can they help please?
), particularly the later night events. All was fine till I stumbled across this in the Terms & Conditions on their website:
6. Copying and copyright
(a) You must not do any of the following:-
(1) Copy, redistribute or relay the Channels or any part of them or otherwise deal with the Channels or any part of them.
(2) Produce, supply or otherwise exploit any programme, service or content (whether audio or audio-visual or otherwise) using the Channels or any part of them or otherwise use any part of the Channels for any commercial purpose whatsoever; (3) Sell or make any charge for watching the Channels or any part thereof; or
(4) Show the Channels in public to an audience even if no charge is made or otherwise use the Service or any part thereof other than to view the Channels in private for non-commercial purposes at your Address.
(b) We may disable or alter remotely certain functions of your Digibox so as to prevent you from copying the Channels and we may prevent you from receiving the Channels if your Digibox allows copying of any Channels which we are bound by contract to prevent.
A bit more research revealed that Pay Per View channels use a service sometimes that means they can block your recording signal - stopping you from recording the program. Other channels such as Sky Box Office utilise a similiar facility so people cannot record some of their films.
So I thought, "Right, I'll stick to Sky Sports 1 hour highlight packages". Still, I got someone to phone them just to make sure. The guy on the phone line sounded a little confused and said that he didn't think there was a problem - which is interestting considering that goes directly against what the website says.
So what should I do? I don't want to waste £12 signing up for something I can't even save or record. Anyone else use the Premier Sports service? Can they help please?
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