Foxtel Now Is Playing Into The Hands Of Pirates. Foxtel Now was supposed to be the solution to all of Foxtels problems a new streaming service with a new identity, for all Australians. And, for a while, it was great. But come last night and come Game of Thrones, it died. And now the arguments of pirates, so close to being comprehensively defeated, restart anew. Overnight, Foxtel gave its streaming video service a new name. The prices are the same. But this is just the first step in a huge transformation in the way Foxtel works and how it sits in Australias media landscape. Read more. This is partly understandable. Unprecedented demand crashed HBOs streaming service, HBO Now, in the US. Unprecedented makes sense its the second last season of the worlds most popular television show but thats not the same thing as unexpected. Foxtels network engineers should have forecasted unprecedented demand. They should have expected it. And because they didnt, expectant customers were disappointed. Foxtel Now has had a relatively easy honeymoon period for its launch no huge event TV to stress test the servers its carried across from the days when it was called Foxtel Play and Foxtel Go. Six weeks since it debuted with fanfare, Game of Thrones has made it fall over. What happens when The Walking Dead, equally popular, comes back while Game of Thrones is also being streamed Foxtels media department issued a mea culpa late last night, in a press release titled Game of Thrones Phenomenon Crash Sites Across the Globe It mentioned the fact that the number of viewers had sent even HBO into a tailspin. But what else could you do, apart from apologise for your serviceFoxtel spends 1. Foxtel has the best breadth and depth of content in Australia. Foxtel outspends its competitors Netflix and Stan by more than 1. Hitcounter Contact Email APSATTV. COM does not support the hacking of PAY TV. Putlocker Watch Movies Online Free. Watch your favorite movies online free on Putlocker. Discover thousands of latest movies online. You have not yet voted on this site If you have already visited the site, please help us classify the good from the bad by voting on this site. Directed by Woody Allen. With Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey, Joe Stapleton. A tormented philosophy professor finds a will to live when he commits an. TV shows and movies like Game of Thrones. And Foxtel has an excellent infrastructure cable TV network, and has had for years. Who would have expected that the first death during the seventh season of Game of Thrones would be the pay TV network charged with distributing it digitally around Australia Read more. But it still doesnt have the streaming product that we want to use. Watch Turning Point Putlocker' title='Watch Turning Point Putlocker' />Theyve tried to fix it, but they still screwed up. And itll get better with time, as it has in the past from HD streaming to 4. K streaming, offline downloads, and so on. Foxtel has promised as much. But pirates arguments only need the smallest provocation to consider themselves justified. For what its worth, when I wanted to watch Game of Thrones last night, I went to bed and switched on my TV and powered on my PS4, jumped into the Foxtel Now app and navigated to Game of Thrones. And it worked The streaming quality was alright not up to the standards of a pirated 1. Frisky Dingo Season 2 Watch Online. Watch Turning Point Putlocker' title='Watch Turning Point Putlocker' />And convenience is the keystone, the lynchpin, for Foxtel Now. Its even in the name. Now. When your service crashes, when it isnt now, thats when people are right to complain. And thats when people will pirate Game of Thrones, and feel justified in doing it. When I wrote how laughably easy it was to get around Australias site blocking laws, I got an email from John Jarratt yknow, Mick Taylor from Wolf Creek if youre good at it, its easy to break into a car in 3. Does that make it right because you can That argument doesnt hold sway with pirates, though. A lot of People On The Internet, who like me grew up with Limewire and Kazaa and Usenet and Bit Torrent, need reasons not to pirate. Piracy is their default. Netflixs Australian launch ticked the right boxes price, availability of content, reliability. Foxtel Now has an affordable tier, and it has so much content, but its not reliable. Not after last night. Imagine another world imagine an alternate history where Foxtel Now didnt shit the bed last night. Imagine the press release wed be writing about instead Foxtel Now Had Its Busiest Night Ever. Foxtel Now Proved Itself Streaming Game Of Thrones. Foxtel Now Finally Proves That Streaming Is The Answer To Piracy. Foxtel Now Has Left Pirates Dead In The Water. WATCH MORE Entertainment News.