Online movie streaming

saintalan

scoobyju1 wrote: »

I use Unblock US. I signed up to Netflix & then later subscribed to the unblocking service.

I certainly wouldn't continue to use Netflix if it wasn't for the access to all the other countries!

Thanks just to confirm you signed up for UK but that allows access to US etc with unblocking.

Also do the number of device restrictions apply when using unblocking?

Thanks again

scoobyju1

saintalan wrote: »

Thanks just to confirm you signed up for UK but that allows access to US etc with unblocking.

Also do the number of device restrictions apply when using unblocking?

Thanks again

Yeah, that's right. Signed up to the Uk one but now have access to all countries including the US, via Unblock US.

Not too sure about the devices as I use the Unblock service on my PS3 only whereas my Brother (who also uses my account) only uses the UK one anyway. We can both use it at the same time despite me using the Unblock service...does that make sense

saintalan

Thanks Scooby, I signed up for the week's trial with unblock-us and month's trial with Netflix.

I have actually had Netflix UK free on my smart TV but it just expired (half way through Breaking Bad!)

Anyway I signed up with Netflix US. It wouldn't accept my PayPal a/c as it is UK but I paid with a US bank a/c card with no problem.

As I have a BT router I am unable to set Unblock at that point so have to do it at device level, had no issue on my TV, so that's fine. Netflix at the $8.99 level allows HD and on 2 concurrent devices, so with the unblock cost just a tad more than the UK cost.

Thanks again

Alan

Marmitejam

From their website:

"Unfortunately, we'll soon be closing down Clubcard TV but you can still sign in and view movies and TV shows now."

jaygra51

carbonara wrote: »

This article is really quite incomplete. It misses out loads of pay per view and subscription streaming services such as acetrax (available on computer and smart tvs), Zune (offers new releases nearly all in HD as well as SD). The article also doesn't say which services offer 5.1 Dolby Digital sound either, very important for a lot of people watching films at home.

The point of this article is to tell us about the FREE sites.

terra_ferma

The longest free trial for a movie streaming service I've ever come across, 90 days!
ONLY using this link: https://mubi.com/picturehouse (if you use it on a PS3 you have to download the app which will sign you up automatically on the 7 days trial, but if you email them they will honour the 90 days).

The cost after the 90 days using this link is £22.99 a year, or (if I remember right) £2.89 monthly.

Not family oriented, and no blockbusters in sight, but lots of indie/foreign movies.
You get 30 movies at any one time, one new a day that will be available for 30 days.

terra_ferma

saintalan wrote: »

Thanks Scooby, I signed up for the week's trial with unblock-us and month's trial with Netflix.

I have actually had Netflix UK free on my smart TV but it just expired (half way through Breaking Bad!)

Anyway I signed up with Netflix US. It wouldn't accept my PayPal a/c as it is UK but I paid with a US bank a/c card with no problem.

As I have a BT router I am unable to set Unblock at that point so have to do it at device level, had no issue on my TV, so that's fine. Netflix at the $8.99 level allows HD and on 2 concurrent devices, so with the unblock cost just a tad more than the UK cost.

Thanks again

Alan

There is no need to open a USA account, all accounts are global, but you are routed to your country website.
E.g. I use Hola on my tablet and although I have a UK account I can watch any site I want.
PS I believe unblock us no longer works on PS3, at least with netflix, although I've not tried it myself.

NeverInDebt

Cant promote warez on here

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longtalker

Hi everyone,

I was searching for a particular film (German film from a few years ago, called Lives Of Others), that I found nowhere to rent (not even on Amazon Instant Video). It is of course available on torrents (I've peeked) but of course I don't want to set my hair on fire - legally speaking - by downloading those.

I then found that film on a random website, and am wondering whether any copyright holders are likely to track who downloads or streams videos belonging to them using this website, and then track down those users (via their ISPs) in order to ask for compensation. I heard some copyright owners intentionally make their content available online as a decoy, to make an extra buck by prosecuting the viewers who will come to watch.

I am aware of the distinction between streaming and downloading the video file, and also that between downloading and sharing (latter being inevitable, when using torrents), but am still not clear whether it is in fact really safe to be streaming films - whose copyright is most likely activaley enforced - on websites such as ovguide (whose content actually links to some really dodgy-looking websites) or the Internet Archive. Is it the case that streaming a certain film might be legal on one website but illegal on another?

If it relevant at all, I am using a German IP address, but the question applies to the legal risk of streaming from any EU country. Thanks in advance for any replies.

terra_ferma

This appears to be the legal position:

Legality

On 5 June 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that streaming illegal content online is legal in Europe. The Boy Genius Report weblog noted that "As long as an Internet user is streaming copyrighted content online ... it’s legal for the user, who isn’t willfully [sic] making a copy of said content. If the user only views it directly through a web browser, streaming it from a website that hosts it, he or she is apparently doing nothing wrong."[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_aspects_of_downloading_and_streaming#European_Union

In fact I have never heard of someone being prosecuted in the EU for watching sports events online, or for using XBMC to watch movies (it might have happened but I have not heard of it)

This is the link to the case: http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=153302&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=399092

Article 5 of Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society must be interpreted as meaning that the copies on the user’s computer screen and the copies in the internet ‘cache’ of that computer’s hard disk, made by an end-user in the course of viewing a website, satisfy the conditions that those copies must be temporary, that they must be transient or incidental in nature and that they must constitute an integral and essential part of a technological process, as well as the conditions laid down in Article 5(5) of that directive, and that they may therefore be made without the authorisation of the copyright holders.