In reply to a post by drummerjohn:

I don't understand why people watch live stuff using the internet as TV broadcasts are generally much better quality anyhow.

Because putting a TV on your desk in an office is a little conspicuous.

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

... but the German GP was only live on TV via Sky Sports F1 channel.

And http://www.vipbox.tv/ once you get past the adverts and popups on that. Taks a bit of skill and practice, but I can now do it inside 60 seconds.

Never click the main X anywhere. (If you hover over an X at the top left of a box, it diappears, then reappears as a tiny one at the bottom left, and that one works.

Also wait 30 seconds for the ones in the centre to just disappear. Never touch them, and never download. You don't need to.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Never touch them, and never download.

Yeah. The websites of questionable legality streaming live sports for free often prompt users to install "missing plugins" which are almost certainly malware.

By adding Adblock Plus and Adblock Plus Pop-up Addon to Firefox, I don'd get any of the annoying boxes, just clear video from the off.

Ahhhh! I hadn't thought of that solution.

A funny thing happened on Sunday, that I was thinking of asking you as you gave me the link in the first place. After the race the program continued for ages, with normal Sky adverts interrupting of course, while all the chat and interviews went on. Then the feed suddenly stopped. A message something like "This stream has been terminated due to copyright infringement" came up.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

A message something like "This stream has been terminated due to copyright infringement" came up.

That will be because the website are indeed infringing copyright by streaming content they do not hold the rights to broadcast. When the streaming services find out, they shut the stream down. Must be an endless task for them.

As a viewer you are unlikely to run into issues though, as you are not streaming the content out to anyone.

It is very rare to get a stream stopped on Vipbox. I think they are so reliable because most are relayed via http://www.justin.tv/directory/sports which are not easy for the copyright holders to get a response from.
As you may have gathered by various station identifiers, VipBox only supply links to elsewhere, though it has been one of the most reliable sites I have come across.

Thanks for the info, I gave it a go but how do you get rid of the grey box what ever it is?
(see link below)

http://i46.tinypic.com/2eajbwz.png

Arthur

http://beusergroup.co.uk/?id=882

I have never got that one so I don't know.

This morning though I enabled IE9's popup blocker. Then when I clicked the link for that site I had to "Allow once". That got me in, then I closed the popups I got, and then it asked a couple more times and I just closed the request.