illegal is illegal they deserve or not is another thing

You can sign up again ah. No big deal.
Still better than spending few hundreds to thousands of ringgit on that.
But then, it all depends on what purpose you want to have Astro on the shoplot la.

If you will use it to entertain customers, like able to watch Astro in a restaurant/food court, then if someone saw there's no small box on bottom right corner and someone complain, then you know lo..... But, is every Malaysian know that the small box means business subscription anyway? I'm sure nobody will care also, unless that person is a hard-core Astro fan.

If you use it only to have Astro in your own private office room, then no one else in the public crowd will know cuz they won't even see u have an Astro subscription that has no small box. You'll get what I mean.

That code is for Astro to identify those premium content being shown on each and every customer. Let say if an underground IPTV service provide Astro SuperSport channel, Astro want to track down the owner of the Astro account that provide this Astro channels illegally. So they demand every Astro boxes to display a special code like you mention, so that Astro can trace the account owner by that code, identify it, and then further action can be taken, such as mass terminating the accounts that provide Astro channels illegally.

No small box, means it's normal residential subscription, just like the Astro you have at home. You won't see a small box on your TV screen when watching Astro at home unless it's business subscription.

True.
But whether would anyone care of that small box or not, that's another thing.

No offense ya.

Agree,end of the day one decides,take it or leave it

So far not ALL channels have display this type of code. Only certain channels like Supersports have this code.
By the way, in-house channels astro don't have this type of code..

And also sorry, a bit silly that I draw like this..
Just want to get more understanding....



The red arrow I point out is you mention the "small box", am I right?
Not you mention astro STB box.. Right?

Last time on Astro legacy boxes, it used to display codes in pretty much every channel you tune in to. The code is like ABC1, DEF2, GHI3, and then it goes back to ABC1 again. But for Byond boxes, it is alphanumeric, grey in colour, it's semi transparent and the code stays on screen for a long time and it won't keep changing. So far I only see it appears on premium content like sports content, and sometimes some Live Malay programme, like those grand finale competition shows where expected viewership shall be very high and illegal live streaming of those grand finale competition show can be seen on Internet, like someone will do it on Facebook Live for example.
So when Astro "send a request" to tell every Byond boxes that currently watching the channel to display the code (it's like, different STB/Astro account will display different code), so when the illegal stream also show that code, Astro will know which Astro account is used to initiate that live stream, and then further action will be taken.

Yes, that's the small box displayed on bottom right corner I'm talking about. There's nothing related to Astro STB box.
It you want to see the subscription rates of Astro for Business, go to https://business.astro.com.my/main

This post has been edited by joshhd: Jan 28 2019, 01:33 PM

Was wondering too why got the watermark code whenever I subscribe to Astro First & Best...
Now I know its to curbed illegal broadcasting / streaming....

http://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/astr...-upselling-njoi

Like this:
The small box appear on bottom right corner, indicating that this is business subscription, also known as Astro for Business.



And the "code"

That's quite interesting..
Didn't know FB have steaming rights..
So it means if uses FB rights for broadcasting.. Mean cheaper cost ahh.. Well play astro 👍

astro will double charges and celebrate if this comes true.

In which way does an android box affect asstro,its not thier content!!I think very doubtful we will follow suit,unless the box is from Israel!!!!

This post has been edited by smileguy: Jan 29 2019, 12:00 PM

I think they only can ban those "ahem" iptv app/bundled ahem iptv boxes.
Android Box itself not illegal what..

Malaysia has tendency to blanket ban everything.......

If I am not wrong, I also saw this small square box even through at njoi subscriber.

So njoi also consider as astro for business?

there are ahem providers charging for pirated axtro channels... for years now... do u not notice?

i think so too.
i suppose they can ban, fine, arrest sellers who sell boxes with pre-installed apps that do infringe copyrights.
empty boxes or boxes with legit apps should not be a problem.
anyway, if blanket ban, it should also apply to android phones and tablets...

we'll see what SG will do...
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singap...ht-act-11133662

For Malaysia to ban.. Would take another few year..
Not as efficient as Singapore...

For now.. Just enjoyed first... Ahem ahem contents too 😑

In my opinion, if people are not interested to subscribe/watch Astro no matter how much they ban this and that, they still find other alternatives such as subscribe OTT platforms (either legal or illegal ones), and still won't go for Astro.

It's like "die die also don't want Astro no matter what".

strongly agree. not subscribing astro because of the rojak content is not worth the value. Astro never learn.