There were mitigating circumstances if you read the press release. 

No he got jail time for running a business of selling “fully loaded” firesticks, not using them. 

Yea yea if your that worried get a VPN stuck on it, millions of people in the uk use illegal firesticks , you don’t even need a firestick if you have a app TV 

Why would they have to pay to get out of the contract? As rights holders they could choose not to broadcast it.

Are you aware that people are now being fined up to £5k for using a Firestick and some poor chap in Liverpool got sentenced to six month in jail for illegal use of a Firestick.

Which is what I have done ... I discovered last year that the matches - the whole meeting, not just the 'highlights' - appeared on Youtube the following day!