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I am not 100% sure on this. It’s gotten really muddled up because these new ISP companies have spun up and started to create “package IPTV” deals. Although they also illegally provide other countries TV services (Sky Sports, BT Sports, etc) through their package. Instead of sending me a takedown request, they seem to have resulted to just banning competitors. It just does not seem right for an ISP company to have this kill-switch privilege.

Well it gets weird. Some of the TV channels here are registered here, but they hire lawyers from states to deal with “competitors” outside the country. So i get the odd DCMA request from a US lawyer for a company registered in Albania/Kosovo. I’m not even sure how that works, but I have complied with them.

HP Microserver Gen8 with:

Debian 8

Xeon E3-1260L

12 GB RAM

120GB SSD (OS), 2 x 3TB WD RED (Data), 2 x 4TB HGST (Movies/TV Shows)

Plex (Movies, TV Shows, Music, Photos)

CouchPotato (Movie Downloading)

Transmission (Torrents)

CrashPlan (backups)

Raspberry Pi Camera Streams (samba share)

+ more stuff

All these applications run in their own docker containers. I used to do local web development in a virtual machine, now it all sits on this server. Love it and it works 'magically'.

Connected to the TV is a Quad-core android TV Box.