These "black boxes" that come preinstalled with many stream services?

by Jexx11

I've seen through my friends and Facebook people selling these black boxes that come pre-installed with all these subscription based streaming sites. I know one that is advertised includes BeeTV, Sky Sports, Vader, Prime Streams, etc basically all the popular stream sites.

My question is how are they getting access to all these subscription based streaming sites? Most of these boxes cost several hundred dollars and I was wondering why the streaming sites don't just block them, or do they have an agreement to allow them access to their streams?

If you buy one of these boxes, what prevents the streaming sites from just blocking them once they find out a month or whatever down the road?

Tamar1nd

Avoid them, junk boxes, no one knows will next week or two your service will die or who is the provider.

Get a Firestick and try a few services.

harpdogg1

They buy the premiums from them all then use the apps supplied by the provider. They enter the user and password to the files and save then Then you can use the box with their sub. and each app is already pre login. The box is just a standard android type box 7.0 I think that are sent without any pre installed apks and they install them all. Beetv, Teatv are free. Probably has pluto tv too . Some include an iptv app with a 3 month sub then u need to renew after 3 months if u like. I've seen them for $200 bucks calling them legal but this is a very grey area because Netflix only allow 5 connection legally but if you only sell 25 boxes chances are 5 people will not be on the same app at a time. However, once the app becomes suspect and the seller goes over selling these boxes, the more accounts will be closed and less and less "legal" tv will be available. Not a very long term solution but what is now a days.

blindfist926

Could be these box sellers are prepaying for the sub before giving it to the buyer. Hundreds for these boxes? Hardware is likely only $70 at most, so how many hundreds are we talking? Very likely overpaying many times over for what any user could do.

roaches85

I have also wondered this. Ive seen them at state fairs and they make them seem so easy and seamless but anything I can do with kodi doesnt even come close.

DirectStreamDVR

Resellers. You buy two years of service at the lowest possible price and keep stacking them until you have a good product then sell for a profit

Midranger4

Have seen devices of this nature offered at open markets and via the internet. They seem to target the new/casual/uninformed user. I noticed on the device this particular fellow was trying to sell me for 60 dollars is that it was a low end/older generic android box that was running a version of android that was far from current. Installed apps included Cyberflix, Cinema HD, and other free to use APKs. In this case I don't think this person was looking for IPTV subs but rather trying to offload older devices he likely bought dirt cheap. He was careful with his wording but certainly tried to give me the impression the APKs were of some value when in fact they were freebies. I didn't have the motivation or energy to engage the guy just told him I wasn't interested.

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The other type I've seen have included installed APKS for a given service or service(s) and were sold under the pretense that the subscription would require renewal after 60 days. Don't quite know how the seller could manage this approach unless he had access to a panel and was activating subs when he sold a device?

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In either case the seller seeks customers that lack the knowledge or incentive to configure their own hardware and are looking for a "plug and play" type solution.

yerdunclelarry

They are most likely using a lifetime subscription, but that's sketchy look what happened to Vader...