Explainer: will the latest dodgy box crackdown work, and do people using them have anything to fear?

Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, use a dodgy box in Ireland. Should they fear the current crackdown?

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Adrian Weckler

Will the latest crackdown wave on dodgy boxes work?

The organisation behind the enforcement, the Federation Against Copyright Theft, thinks it will. It says that “the vast majority of illegal services” are currently being taken down and that “tens of thousands” are seeing, or will see, their streams disrupted.