I will move this to Closed & Expired Trading, well done guys
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Looks like it was a great deal
I will close this now as all gone
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Good job guys, if you can post on the thread when the receiver has been received and you are both happy with the sale, we can then close and move the thread for you
:good news:
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Once the item has been received and both parties are happy the thread will be closed and moved
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[MENTION=45125]bert72[/MENTION]
Can you confirm if you have received the receivers and are happy so I can close this
Thanks
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[MENTION=45125]bert72[/MENTION]
Can you confirm if you have received the receivers and are happy so I can close this
Thanks
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Sorry mate, it was complicated by the fact i offered as a joint offer for both. However i respect the rules so, sorry for the infraction.
Hi, it was not an infraction, just a heads up on the rules, I appreciate these sales can be complicated at times and in your case buying both receiver's was probably the case
The rules are there to protect both parties
If you could post back on both thread's when you have received both receiver's and your happy with them and we can close them down
Good luck with your purchase's
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Sorry mate, it was complicated by the fact i offered as a joint offer for both. However i respect the rules so, sorry for the infraction.
Hi, it was not an infraction, just a heads up on the rules, I appreciate these sales can be complicated at times and in your case buying both receiver's was probably the case
The rules are there to protect both parties
If you could post back on both thread's when you have received both receiver's and your happy with them and we can close them down
Good luck with your purchase's
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For future reference can you please adhere to the buying / selling rules, in particular rule number 4
4. Private message and email may not be used at anytime in a live sale. All discussions including offers, acceptances and refusals should be shown clearly in the thread. Once a sale is complete you may use whatever form of external communication you like to finalize payment details etc. It is the responsibility of both the seller and the buyer to ensure that all negotiations are conducted within the thread. We insist on this rule because we need to see all the negotiations to be able to mediate a solution to a dispute.
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For future reference can you please adhere to the buying / selling rules, in particular rule number 4
4. Private message and email may not be used at anytime in a live sale. All discussions including offers, acceptances and refusals should be shown clearly in the thread. Once a sale is complete you may use whatever form of external communication you like to finalize payment details etc. It is the responsibility of both the seller and the buyer to ensure that all negotiations are conducted within the thread. We insist on this rule because we need to see all the negotiations to be able to mediate a solution to a dispute.
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The new "official trailer #2" is out, so thought I would share it here
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Pub landlord accuses Premier League and Sky of 'illegal' plot to stop matches being aired commercially
Anthony Luxton, who runs The Rhyddings pub in Swansea, claims European competition rules are being flouted
A pub landlord has accused the Premier League and Sky of an “illegal” plot to stop matches being aired commercially in the UK using foreign decoder boxes.
Anthony Luxton, of The Rhyddings pub in Swansea , says European competition rules are being flouted by an “unlawful agreement” between the two giants.
He is now trying to prove his point before two of the country’s most senior judges at the Court of Appeal in London.
The FA Premier League Ltd vehemently denies it has any such “mutual understanding” with Sky and is fighting the case tooth and nail.
Swansea landlord who showed Premier League games at the Rhyddings pub wins right to appeal £65,000 court judgement
Premier League lawyers say Mr Luxton breached its copyright by using a “domestic” Scandinavian decoder box to screen matches in his pub.
But Martin Howe QC, representing the publican, said his inability to get hold of a “commercial” box was due to “anti-competitive” conduct by the Premier League and Sky.
Their bid to “preserve territorial exclusivity” for EU broadcasters had led to “starvation” of the cross-border market for commercial decoder boxes, he claimed.
Mr Luxton’s case dates back to 2011 when he bought a foreign satellite TV system with what he believed to be a commercial decoder card, said Mr Howe.
But, “unbeknown to Mr Luxton”, his supplier “found itself unable to obtain” a commercial package and instead installed a “domestic” card.
The Premier League swooped and in 2014 a judge found Mr Luxton in breach of copyright and ordered him to pay £65,000 in legal costs.
He is now challenging that decision before Lords Justice Tomlinson and Floyd at the Court of Appeal.
Mr Howe told the court the Premier League’s case against Mr Luxton was “at least in part an illicit attempt to preclude the use of foreign decoder cards to receive broadcasts from a foreign broadcaster within the EU”.
He added: “It is alleged that the Premier League is acting pursuant to an unlawful agreement or mutual understanding between itself and Sky to preserve territorial exclusivity for EU broadcasters”.
Had it not been for the success of the Premier League’s “unlawful efforts” to restrict supplies of foreign commercial decoder cards, Mr Luxton “would not have found himself in breach of copyright”, the QC claimed.
However, Helen Davies QC, for the Premier League, denied it had any anti-competitive agreement with Sky and insisted that the publican’s arguments had “no realistic prospect of success”.
The simple fact was that Mr Luxton had used a “domestic use only” card for the “commercial purpose” of screening matches to his customers, she told the court.
The hearing continues and the court is expected to reserve its decision on Mr Luxton’s appeal until a later date.
Source: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/n…s-premier-league-12009360
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How France's TV5 was almost destroyed by 'Russian hackers'
A powerful cyber-attack came close to destroying a French TV network, its director-general has told the BBC.
TV5Monde was taken off air in April 2015. A group calling itself the Cyber Caliphate, linked to so-called Islamic State, first claimed responsibility.
But an investigation now suggests the attack was in fact carried out by a group of Russian hackers.
The attack used highly targeted malicious software to destroy the TV network's systems.Wednesday 8 April was a big day for Yves Bigot, the director-general of TV5Monde.
His network, which broadcasts around the world, had just launched its latest channel. French ministers had been in attendance at the Paris headquarters.
That evening Mr Bigot went for dinner to celebrate with a counterpart from Radio Canada.Just as they were being served their appetisers at 20:40 local time, a flood of texts and calls informed him that all 12 channels had gone off air.
"It's the worst thing that can happen to you in television," Mr Bigot told me in his Paris office.
It quickly became clear that the network had been subject to a serious cyber-attack.
"We were a couple of hours from having the whole station gone for good."It was a race against time - more systems were corrupted with every passing minute. Any substantial delay would have led satellite distribution channels to cancel their contracts, placing the entire company in jeopardy.
"We were saved from total destruction by the fact we had launched the channel that day and the technicians were there," said Mr Bigot.
"One of them was able to locate the very machine where the attack was taking place and he was able to cut out this machine from the internet and it stopped the attack."
At 05:25 local time, one channel was restored. Others followed later that morning.
"We owe a lot to the engineer who unplugged that particular machine. He is a hero here," Mr Bigot said.The attack was far more sophisticated and targeted than reported at the time. The perpetrators had first penetrated the network on 23 January.
They carried out reconnaissance of TV5Monde to understand the way in which it broadcast its signals. They then fabricated bespoke malicious software to corrupt and destroy the internet-connected hardware that controlled the TV station's operations - such as the encoder systems used to transmit programmes.
The attackers used seven different points of entry. Not all of them were part of TV5Monde or in France. In one case, a company based in the Netherlands was targeted because it supplied the remote controlled cameras used in TV5's studios.
Who was responsible?
At 20:40 local time - when the first calls were made - the people in charge of digital content at the broadcaster told Mr Bigot that messages had been posted on the channel's Twitter and Facebook pages.
The hackers said they were from a group calling themselves the Cyber Caliphate, and made threats against France. It was only a few months since the Charlie Hebdo attacks and it seemed this could have been a follow-up strike by so-called Islamic State (IS).But as the investigation by French authorities began, a different picture began to emerge.
France's cyber-agency told Mr Bigot to be careful about linking the incident directly to IS - instead he was advised to say only that the messages claimed to be from IS.
The investigators had come to believe that the attackers had used the jihadist posts to try to cover their tracks.
Mr Bigot was later told evidence had been found that his network had been attacked by a group of Russian hackers, who are known as APT 28.
Mysterious motive
"I have absolutely no idea," said Mr Bigot, when I asked why TV5Monde had been targeted.
He explained that the investigators had only been able to prove two things.
Firstly, that the attack was designed to destroy the channel, and secondly, that it was linked to APT 28.
"There are two things that the investigation won't probably be able to achieve," he added.
"The first one is why us - why TV5Monde?
"And the second one is: Who gave the order and the money to that Russian group of hackers to actually do it?"
Destructive intent
It's not uncommon for cyber-attackers to enter a target's network to look for information.
But what happened to TV5 was not espionage - the aim was destruction. And that is indicative of a new trend: attacks with physical-world consequences.
Arguably, the pioneering state-backed attack of this type was Stuxnet.
This was carried out - it is widely believed - by the US and Israel against Iran's nuclear programme and involved damaging the centrifuge programme at Natanz.
More recently, a power station in Ukraine was switched off by cyber-attackers.
The TV5 attack fits into this pattern of highly-targeted attacks, rather than the kind of general criminal activity typically seen on the web.
The issue as to why Russian hackers targeted the company is one that has occupied intelligence analysts in the UK and US, as well as France.
In London, the conclusion was that it was most likely an attempt to test forms of cyber-weaponry as part of an increasingly aggressive posture.
Dangerous precedent
The impact on TV5 was enormous.
In the immediate aftermath, staff had to return to using fax machines as they could not send emails.
"We had to wait for months and months before we reconnected to the internet," recalled Mr Bigot.
The financial cost was €5m ($5.6m; £4.5m) in the first year, followed by over €3m ($3.4m; £2.7m) every following year for new protection.
But the biggest challenge has been to the way the company works. Every employee has had to change their behaviour.
Special authentication procedures are needed to check email from abroad, flash drives have to be tested before being inserted.
For a media company that exists by moving material in and out of its systems, the costs in efficiency have been real.
"We never will be as we were before," said Mr Bigot. "It is too dangerous." -
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