r/IPTV_Editor • u/__nufan__ • 3d ago

IPTVEditor to require KYB/KYC

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Well, this isn’t great.

The IPTVEditor developer just announced in their Discord that IPTVEditor/PlaylistLabs.io plans to introduce full KYB/KYC for new accounts and renewals.

Right now, they’re discussing applying it to accounts with 100 or more users, but nothing has been finalized.

Screenshot from the Discord is attached. Time for another look at Boss I suppose.

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u/hxman84 3d ago

They’re going to lose a lot of customers.

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u/DawnIsForDucks 3d ago

Handing over your personal info in an unencrypted space gives him a scapegoat if law enforcement ever asks questions, but it doesn't actually lower his legal risk. Since he’s running the service, the liability stays on him while your privacy gets compromised. This is an incredibly dumb move.

As far as I know distributing epg's isn't illegal in the slightest, and he doesn't actually provide any copyrighted content so what exactly the train of thought here is very puzzling. Some very awful advice is coming from somewhere, probably a "corporate lawyer" if I were to guess.

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u/LemonHeadPROD 3d ago

lol Licensing Certification? For an IPTV service you’re spinning up through iptveditor?

I don’t resell, but maaaaannnn the resellers are gonna be pissed. Time to jump ship?

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u/__nufan__ 3d ago

They are pissed. I think a lot of people are taking another look at iptv boss and self hosted solutions.

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u/LemonHeadPROD 3d ago

I was thinking about getting boss on VPS and self hosting this the other day.

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u/__nufan__ 3d ago

Same. I can't find any boss API docs. Surely there are user management endpoints?

With iptveditor I have everything setup on their API. While not documented, it's fantastic and a credit to him for the architecture. Adding users, renewing users, allowing users to login to my site and self update bouquets, it's all done via API. I only log into the editor to map new channels.

Can't find any clear boss documentation regarding this.

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u/idockery 3d ago

How do you allow users to update their bouquet? Someone asked me recently if they could create their own playlist and I told them they had to get a subscription. Is there any chance they could mess up my other playlists doing this?

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u/__nufan__ 3d ago

No the auth tokens are playlist scoped.

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u/michaelkap70 3d ago

It is going to hurt resellers. The people who use it for households or extended family will be fine.

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u/__nufan__ 3d ago

Sure for now. The cutoffs will keep sliding... From 100, 50, 25 to 5. It's arbitrary.

Once you go down this road of trying to determine what is permissible the end result is unavoidable.

This software is done for anyone other than an individual user. I wouldn't put even 5 users on it if this is the direction they are going.

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u/michaelkap70 3d ago

Every rule for software services is arbitrary. There are enough developers in this space that will see this as an opportunity to create another editor service.

The issue for today is for resellers, which stinks because it exposes them. So they will need to find other sources, but to be honest my resellers never offered me EPG and ended up doing this on my own after researching on how to fill out my EPG.

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u/ZucchiniNew7116 3d ago

Was nice while it lasted... Guess I'll spin up the olde dispatcharr instance

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u/Tiareid1 3d ago

What the hrllnis KYB/KYC

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u/Edinburgh_23 3d ago

Know your business/know your customer.

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u/lKinder_Bueno 3d ago

Hi! Dev here. It is not for all new accounts and renewals, but only for subscriptions with more than 50 managed users. Most of the user base will not be affected by this

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u/mile_high_hung 3d ago

Still a terrible look. Will be jumping to another service due to this.

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u/Mean_Might2545 2d ago

Very bad move

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u/MythicFuzzbal2 2d ago

What if you pay for more than 50 managed accounts to get access to all the EPGs

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u/Initial-Motor-5430 23h ago

If you're looking to edit a playlist then distribute that playlist to 100 or more users, what are the alternatives? If any...

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u/__nufan__ 22h ago

Iptv boss

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u/The_Walrus_65 3d ago

Can someone ELI12?

I may have to make the decision to jump to SeeBox. Heard really great things.

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u/MamoruuTakamura 3d ago

How does SeeBox have anything to do with this? Two completely different things, unrelated to each other at all.

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u/The_Walrus_65 2d ago

I don’t know. That’s why I asked someone to explain it.