Yes - for some of these you can stream if you know the URL, but you're only able...

dkh · 2025-04-03T06:16:37 1743660997

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

lxgr · 2025-04-03T00:16:56 1743639416

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.