Sky Q boxes are "down" across the entire nation leaving people unable to watch TV, because the Sky account servers are down

but how can this be? a lot of people still get TV through satellite with Sky, which shouldn't be affected by an internet-based outage... except Comcast/Sky DRM-ing the boxes

the main report i'm seeing (and experiencing) is after 5-10 minutes the box just completely turns off and can't be turned on again. that's an *insanely weird* failure case, which makes me suspect that because the authentication is failing, it thinks you're stealing - the box isn't yours according to your contract, after all