Comment by lxgr
Non-public streams wouldn’t be published without DRM, or at least not as publicly retrievable (i.e. without any authentication) M3U playlists, would they?
Non-public streams wouldn’t be published without DRM, or at least not as publicly retrievable (i.e. without any authentication) M3U playlists, would they?
I think a number of these are also public rebroadcasts piggybacking off a less-public source.
Definitely a lot of these are also [re]broadcasts from vendors, probably for a specific platform or distribution target, that people found the URLs for and that the original source isn't super aware of the details of
If they contain some entropy, i.e. if there's path/parameter based bearer token authentication, sure.
https://iptv.example.com/720p.m3u8? I doubt you'll convince many courts of that being nonpublic.
Yes - for some of these you can stream if you know the URL, but you're only able to discover the URL after making an account.