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    Bad News Wiziwig.tv Closes

    Dear Visitors of WiZiWiG

    Today is a sad day for all fans of live sports streaming, as we at Wiziwig have to announce that we're forced to close our website, at least for now. This due to new laws in Spain which will get into force starting tomorrow, the 1st January 2015. Failing to comply with the new reform puts us at risks of fines being as high as € 600.000,- and also losing our domain, hosting and other necessary stuff to operate wiziwig.

    For all those interested in the reasons behind this decision please read further below.

    Wiziwig is a free service, which has been started over 3 years ago and for those who always wondered, we will first explain the meaning of wiziwig:

    What You See Is What You Get

    WYSIWYG, easier to remember we decided to change it into WIZIWIG. The aim of wiziwig has always been to provide you (everyone) with links to watch live and free sports online, whereever you live. We've also chosen to act as a normal company, as we still believe that linking to other websites isn't wrong, isn't against any law and should be possible without having to hide ourselves behind a proxy or fake registrations.

    It's therefore that we've chosen to operate from Spain, as several higher court cases there have declared linking to be legal. This has given us the opportunity to run wiziwig for 3 years. Nevertheless it hasn't been easy to operate as since we've started we've been facing a lot of pressure, like fake claims of being unlawfull, being pirates, pressure on hosting, advertising and much more.

    Main threat has been the English Premier League, who've tried literally anything to shut our website down, to cease our revenues, spread false accusations and who has constantly been chasing us down. Needless to say that this has cost us a lot of time and money to fight against these fake claims and fake accusations. It also made it more difficult to run advertisements to pay our expenses, and the same applies for donating which has been made impossible. But we still decided to continue to run this website to provide you with the best links to watch live and free sports on the internet.

    However, since a year Spain has been working on a new law, later followed by another law and proposals to stop the linking on the internet. Several weeks ago, in November, a main part of this new law had been approved, and it will go in affect as from the 1st January 2015. As you might have heared, 2 weeks ago Google News already decided to close their operations in Spain because of parts of this new law. Several other linking sites in Spain decided to close aswell in the past weeks.

    Main reason is the ridiculous part of the law that forces sites to follow a strict DMCA policy, in which you need to act within 3 days after receiving a complaint, failing to do so will result in an adminstrative party (the ministry of culture) judging about the complaint. They can then force your domain to be blocked, make your website inaccesible, hosting to be shut down, ads to be removed and bank accounts to be closed. After a second complaint fines of 600.000 euros will be given. You might think there should be ways to workaround the law, but there's also a part that states that after a complaint of party "x", all possible "illegal" content of that party "x" has to be removed and kept removed, failing to do so makes you again facing all the penalties as decscribed above. As this all goes by bypassing jury or judge (law court), the risks have become too high to continue our website. To fully trust an administrative party judging about complaints is impossible, especially with the pressure we've been facing and the fake complaints and unlawful acting of other parties to get us down. We can't give our faith in the hands of a third party.

    In addition to this Spain is also working on a new criminal justice "law", which they expect to be approved somewhere in 2015. In this new criminal law owners of websites who link to other websites, and who get complaints, may face 6 years in jail.

    All together this has made us decide to stop with Wiziwig at the end of 2014, before the start of the new year, to be fully safe and to see how things will work out. We will now focus on new things, maybe we will return one day but for now we would like to say once again thank you for your trust in Wiziwig. Despite this bad message we still wish everyone all the best in 2015!

    Thanks for visiting Wiziwig and for your loyalty. As said above already, time will tell if we return in the future.
    Damn I needed a link for Chelsea this evening. Anyone know of equivilent sites?

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    Default Re: Wiziwig.tv Closes

    Quote Originally Posted by beerman View Post
    Damn I needed a link for Chelsea this evening. Anyone know of equivilent sites?
    Streamking usually have ok links


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    Default Re: Wiziwig.tv Closes

    use FSI http://www.footballstreaming.info/

    and use adblock plus with chrome

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    Default Re: Wiziwig.tv Closes

    Quote Originally Posted by beerman View Post
    Damn I needed a link for Chelsea this evening. Anyone know of equivilent sites?

    Hopefully you missed it.

    Thanks to Geko

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    Default Re: Wiziwig.tv Closes

    Quote Originally Posted by Geko View Post
    Hopefully you missed it.
    Was getting goal updates through my phone. Wtf happened there then.

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    Default Re: Wiziwig.tv Closes

    Quote Originally Posted by beerman View Post
    Was getting goal updates through my phone. Wtf happened there then.

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    Ask Mourinho and he'll blame the ref, ask anyone else who saw the game and they'll probably say that both teams defending was rubbish, Tottenham just took their chances in front of goal (for once!)

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    Default Re: Wiziwig.tv Closes

    I have found no workaround for streaming Flash streamed footy on an Android tablet.

    Does anyone know a way of getting the footy on these? (Don't want to try the Acestream route where you need about 5 programs for one thing!)


    Bilbo.

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    Default Re: Wiziwig.tv Closes

    P2P streaming,

    Google it.

    Fon

    Thanks to Fon

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    Default Re: Wiziwig.tv Closes

    Quote Originally Posted by Bilbo_baggin View Post
    I have found no workaround for streaming Flash streamed footy on an Android tablet.

    Does anyone know a way of getting the footy on these? (Don't want to try the Acestream route where you need about 5 programs for one thing!)


    Bilbo.
    If it's on sly or BeeTee then Mobdro is easy enough, if it's a 3pm kick off then Xbmc using Sportsdevil usually hits the spot.

    Thanks to Rhinoz

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    Default Re: Wiziwig.tv Closes

    Quote Originally Posted by Rhinoz View Post
    If it's on sly or BeeTee then Mobdro is easy enough, if it's a 3pm kick off then Xbmc using Sportsdevil usually hits the spot.

    Will Mobdro play on a Lenovo Tablet? I thought the flash just wont run since Adobe pulled support for it on all android devices?

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    Default Re: Wiziwig.tv Closes

    Quote Originally Posted by Rhinoz View Post
    If it's on sly or BeeTee then Mobdro is easy enough, if it's a 3pm kick off then Xbmc using Sportsdevil usually hits the spot.
    Got it working.

    Cheers mate.

    Next - is there an Android option for Bein Sports streams, cos they won't run atm.

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    Default Re: Wiziwig.tv Closes

    Just a heads up, you can get BT Sports accounts for £20 a year. Sky Go accounts for £70 odd a year.

    NBC Sports, BEIN Sports etc (VPN needed) for a few quid a year also.
    "That's why I fucked your bitch you fat mother fucker"

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