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it's up 32%.
It's up by a third in five years.
Again, it's too expensive for people to buy.
So they're buying different stuff.
And for many, they're having to substitute.
They're buying cheaper stuff and stuff that might have been a regular purchase in the shopping trolley is not there anymore, Matt.
Yeah, Sky went into the High Court and got the details of who was paying what to a dodgy box supplier, if you like, operator, IPTV, Easy they're called.
And it got a list of 200 names.
And it's written to them now, threatening legal action.
It's threatening big stuff here to seek damages off them, to injunct these people and to seek legal costs.
And it's sent to my letter saying, look, if you cease and desist, if you sign this letter and return it to us and promise not to use your dodgy box again, we won't come after you.
Now, what's going to happen here?
Well, very interesting follow up on this today.
My colleague Sean Pollock has been writing about this.
An associate professor in law at the UCD Sutherland School.
He's also chairman of the Digital Rights Ireland, TJ McIntyre.
He reckons this is a bit of a bluff that they won't go after individuals.
It's probably too expensive.
It's too messy.
But he says, look, on the other hand, if you have been using a dodgy box and you want to kind of