John Laidlaw
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Agreed Rob, that's been the highlight so far of the series...enjoyed it greatly
Agreed Rob, that's been the highlight so far of the series...enjoyed it greatly
Its one of those things that falls neatly down the cracks of copyright law.
Its not illegal to have or use a Kodi box, nor is it illegal to view the streamed data. Its illegal to host the data but as a streaming user thats not your concern outside of the possibility the content could be shutdown. .
You point above is taken but, is the content usually free - or would I usually have to pay for what I'm viewing through "normal" channels? i.e. could I get done for theft?
This is widely interpreted here as 'streaming' videos from any source is legal, whereas 'downloading' them without authorisation is not.
Downloading is not illegal. Uploading is illegal.
Providing streams of IP protected content is illegal, accessing streams is currently not illegal.
Streams are technically downloads anyway as the streamed 1s and 0s need to be recompiled by your CPU on your hard drive.