alt Hacker NewsYes - for some of these you can stream if you know the URL, but you're only able to discover the URL after making an account.
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lxgr • 04/03/2025
If they contain some entropy, i.e. if there's path/parameter based bearer token authentication, sure.
https://iptv.example.com/720p.m3u8? I doubt you'll convince many courts of that being nonpublic.
I think a number of these are also public rebroadcasts piggybacking off a less-public source.
Definitely a lot of these are also [re]broadcasts from vendors, probably for a specific platform or distribution target, that people found the URLs for and that the original source isn't super aware of the details of