Be interesting to see how this pans out over the next 12 months for sure.
With cable sharing starting to be banned this week. Fla**ess losing there servers. More IPTV servers will continue to go down. The authorities will continue to go after the big providers.
There was a lot of talk that a fix for card sharing was found, but the people behind it were so pissed of with all the smaller people jumping on and charging £15 a year for Sat and advertising all over Facebook and knowing that that fix would just be encrypted again as soon as it reached the wild they refused to release it.
I honestly believe its pretty likely if they wanted to fix card sharing they could and probably have.
Card sharing will probably continue but in an underground way amongst a few, probably a few hundred who wont share it and will enjoy the benefits.
I think ISPs will be forced to clamp down on IPTV because its got out of hand - and VPNs will probably start to be banned on your ISPs because it'll be seen as being used for the wrong reasons.
Eventually the whole thing will burst at its seams. The issue is - if people can't access the football league they love - do they bother paying for it to watch? The likelihood is no. Suddenly there mates aren't watching the game so stop talking about the game down the pub. Suddenly the mates that do pay for Sky/BT and such services stop paying for it because they can't talk to there mates who aren't paying for it about the football.
Eventually the whole thing collapses.
I'm amazed we have another huge TV contract at 4 billion, and we would still be paying £90-100+ a month for full sky package+BT (And whoever gets the final packages) and still only get to watch our team 20-25 times a season (out of 45-50+ games)
Thats £1500 a year to watch your team in 1/2 games. or £60 a game - on TV!
Is it worth it? The answer in short is no.