How can something like that be broken for over a month?! This aint some two bit motor racing series this is meant to be the pinnacle of technical excellence!Confirmation that the FIA to car telemetry system is still broke.
Someone's going to suffer the wrath of Bernie...
It's an anti piracy measure I believe, the number is unique to each viewing card so Sky can see who are running the online streams etc and try to shut them down.
They do it on all the sport channels, see it on the footy all the time.