Participant Summary 1/7/19 - The Kayo Switch-over and Pirate Searches

In an effort to get a better understanding of the motivations for consuming games of AFL on television as a hard core fan, I have abandoned my Foxtel now subscription.

I've had Foxtel Now for at least a year, and I've come to like the package, although I don't think Foxtel were treating it with as much attention as maybe they could have, and the quality dropped off in the last few weeks - although I suspect this had more to do with more people using the internet in my area at peak times than anything else.

Also, I would like to go fully without any paid services to fully replicate the free-to-air access only fan, but I need to keep some level of subscription going to share with Joe, as I use his Netflix login. It seems only fair that I pay for something and share it with him rather than just leach off his Netflix.

Also, later this month i'll get a Watch AFL pass again, and see how the experience compares getting access to that with a VPN.

I've had Kayo before during the first beta-stages of testing, but first impressions are that it's ok, but I really would prefer a more traditional style of TV guide than the Netflix style user-interface they seem to be persevering with. Also, the service was having lots of trouble buffering this morning, which is a worry because i don't think there would be a lot of internet traffic at 8am on a Monday morning.

It does allow me to Chromecast though, which is good, because I think during the beta stage, you could only Chromecast if you had the most recent models of the device. Mine is one of the earlier models. Perhaps this explains the buffering issues I had this morning. I'll have to try it again at other times, or when logged in via the gaming PC, to see if the problem persists.

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An issue that came up when searching for prate streams of AFL a couple of months ago is the threat of malware. My old MacBook that I was searching on became infected with two types of malware during the search, so I had to buy some software to get it cleaned off. Not ideal.

however, it does demonstrate the issues faced when trying to get access to content via non-traditional or authorised means.