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Why don’t Starbucks just block the traffic on that IP?

• incone123 4y ago
  Why should they have to? And what's to stop the customer using their own data anyway? Unlimited data plans are common in the UK.
  • quickthrower2 4y ago
    Why should they have to? They shouldn’t ideally but the law is what it is. Their reactions was T&Cs but holing up an IP is an automated solution that is more robust. The customer can use their own data - if they are liable in that scenario it would be nuts. But maybe that is the legal position?
    • lozenge 4y ago
      The law doesn't say they have to help enforce the law. It would be the customer who's breaking the law by watching TV, not them.
    • incone123 4y ago
      My hunch would be that no TV Licencing enforcement teams will be sent to patrol coffee shops and so we will never see a test case.
• Dylan16807 4y ago
  They don't want to inconvenience their customers, and that would be too wide of a block.
• t0mas88 4y ago
  Because traffic on that IP is legal if the phone is on battery power. Seriously, I did not make this up, it's on the linked page.