Content licensing statement

We hold distribution agreements covering the live channels and on-demand catalog available on our plans, for delivery to viewers in the United States. Those agreements are negotiated directly or through authorised content aggregators, and they are what you are actually paying for when you subscribe.

Per-subscriber content costs are the single largest line item in a service like this, which is why our longer terms are priced the way they are: a 12-month commitment costs us far less per subscriber to service than month-to-month billing, and we pass that difference on rather than keeping it.

Practically, it means continuity. A licensed service is not subject to sudden takedown, its domain does not need to change, and its payment processing does not disappear. That is the difference between a subscription and a gamble.

It also means you do not need a VPN. A licensed service has no reason to care whether your ISP can see the traffic, so any provider telling you a VPN is required has told you something important about its own licensing.

Local broadcast affiliates are licensed market by market, which makes them the hardest and most expensive rights to secure. Coverage therefore varies by ZIP code. Verify the specific locals you need during the 7-day guarantee window.

Regional sports blackouts apply, because blackout terms are written into the rights agreements themselves. A licensed provider must honor them. This is a genuine feature difference in the unlicensed direction, and we would rather state it plainly than have you discover it during a game.

Any service can write the word licensed on a page, so the claim is only worth what the checks around it are worth. Four of them are available to you without any special knowledge, and they are the same four we would apply to a competitor.

First, is the lineup it describes plausible, and will it answer a direct question about a specific channel before you pay? A five-figure total is unauditable by anyone outside the business, which is precisely why it is the category's favourite number. A countable lineup, broken down by category, and a support desk that will confirm the channels you actually watch in writing are both things you can test.

Second, does it state its limitations before you pay? Blackouts and market-by-market local coverage are unavoidable consequences of holding real rights. A service claiming to be licensed while promising every local affiliate everywhere is claiming two things that cannot both be true.

Third, how does it take payment? Card and PayPal leave you able to dispute a charge and require the business to satisfy a processor's compliance checks. Cryptocurrency and gift cards remove both, which is why they are common where licensing is not. We do not accept either, deliberately.

Fourth, does it require a VPN? A licensed service has no reason to care what your ISP can see. A provider telling you a VPN is necessary has told you something significant about its own position, whether or not it meant to.

Being licensed to distribute a channel is not the same as being licensed to let you keep a permanent copy of it, which is why this service offers catch-up — a server-side replay window — rather than a personal recorder. Those are separate permissions, negotiated separately and priced separately. A provider shipping unlimited recording alongside an implausible channel count is telling you which permissions it did not buy.

It also does not cover the third-party platforms whose names appear in comparisons on this site. We are not affiliated with any subscription streaming platform, and a subscription here provides no access to one. Brand names are the trademarks of their owners and appear here for comparison, not to imply endorsement.

Finally, licensing is not permanent. Agreements are renegotiated, and a lineup can change when they are. Where a change materially reduces the service, section 1 of the Terms commits us to notifying affected subscribers and, at your option, prorating or refunding the remainder of your term. That commitment exists because a lineup change is the most likely way this service could stop being what you bought.

Rights holders with questions about our licensing of specific content should contact support@eyeptv.live. Formal infringement notices should follow the process in our DMCA policy.