Infinity TV Box - Legal??

almillar

watching a streamed programme online is illegal

Streaming is downloading - taking the data down from the internet onto your computer - it just doesn't get kept. It's copyright infringement either way.

itstheone

almillar wrote: »

Streaming is downloading - taking the data down from the internet onto your computer - it just doesn't get kept. It's copyright infringement either way.

Maybe not

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tronator

itstheone wrote: »

Maybe not

http://!!!!!!/1i4Wzim

Please don't use URL shorteners. They are completely unnecessary outside Twitter. I want to see where a link takes me before I click on it.

itstheone

tronator wrote: »

Please don't use URL shorteners. They are completely unnecessary outside Twitter. I want to see where a link takes me before I click on it.

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

almillar

It's also in French and doesn't seem to want to change. Fancy summarising it for us?
My response was specific to brewerdave pointing out that streaming still involves the same bits and bytes arriving on your computer and appearing on your screen, just not being saved for later. Streaming is certainly in the same moral place as downloading content that's being distributed illegally.

gr1340

In Europe, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that it is legal to look at content (copyrighted or otherwise) online.
The ruling relates to the British Meltwater case settled on 5 June 2014.

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

VisionMan

This is a very grey area. But as stated above, of the users viewing these services for personal use only no one has ever been prosecuted.

Much like the Karen Murphy case 4 October 2011 (Football Association Premier League Ltd and Others v QC Leisure and Others (C-403/08) and Karen Murphy v Media Protection Services Ltd (C-429/08), it was ruled personal home usage of EU satellite decoders wasn't illegal but professional pub/club usage was.

http://curia.europa.eu/juris/liste.jsf?num=C-403/08&language=en

Scottish1

Hey, first post on this forum.. hows it going people


Yeah as stated it's a very grey area on the legality of said boxes particularly when it comes to the streaming ones. As for the boxes that decode Sky TV's or VM's subscription I'd 100% say they're illegal and people have been jailed in the past for them, but they're mainly looking for the people who are sharing the content, not the end user.

Mike7174

Please don't deal with these conmen I paid £149 got a box that crashes and freezes all the time and then I find out its exactly the same content as those cheap Chinese kodi boxes for $20 just running an aeon nox skin and menu and when I dared complain and tell them there box is useless they block me on Facebook and refuse to answer messages. No wonder tey don't have bad reviews they block them and delete there bad comments there thieves be warned £149 is a lot of money for a Chinese plastic box that's not reliable

DCFC79

Mike7174 wrote: »

There conmen mate buy a cheap kodi for £20 it does exactly the same thing and has all the same content

Who are you responding too ?