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cmn32480
on Thursday February 09 2017, @07:53PM
from the streaming-gets-you-sent-up-the-river dept.
from the streaming-gets-you-sent-up-the-river dept.
Five people have been arrested, accused of selling set-top boxes modified to stream subscription football matches, television channels and films for free.
The sale of so-called "fully loaded Kodi boxes" has been called a "top priority" by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact).
The five traders were arrested in early morning raids.
Fact said it believed the suspects had made in the region of £250,000 selling the devices online.
Kodi is free software built by volunteers to bring videos, music, games and photographs together in one easy-to-use application.
Some shops sell legal set-top boxes and TV sticks, often called Kodi boxes, preloaded with the software.
The latest battle in the Forever War...
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by bzipitidoo on Friday February 10 2017, @12:46AM
I totally agree. I wonder what can be done to change attitudes. Boycotts can be effective, but I don't see the people coming up with the will to do it, even for the most outrageous crap the movie theater pulls. Sad how much people put up with to be allowed to watch a movie at the theater like it's some kind of huge privilege. Can't bring your own food and are asked to pay outrageous prices for extremely unhealthy junk food at their exploitative concessions stands, can't make a crap recording of even 1 minute of a movie without being accused of theft and threatened with jail time, ticket prices are high and to add to the insult if you buy online beforehand, you get charged more for the convenience by the likes of Fandango and Ticket Bastard. It doesn't cost extra to buy a DVD online, why should buying a movie ticket online cost extra?
I think part of the problem is that fans of entertainment, including moviegoers, are younger and more naive about their rights and powers. They too uncritically accept Big Media propaganda that equates copying with theft, and swallow the line that artists will starve without copyright and deserve better. Of course artists deserve better, but that line of arguing is a red herring. They're unaccustomed to the sly tricks the propagandists use to get them to overlook flaws in the reasoning, such as that the causal connection between copying and starving artists is weak. I suspect the same factor plays into the rampant age discrimination in IT. Employers want younger employees because they don't understand as well that they are manipulated into working more and accepting less.
Still, I am hopeful that generational change will eventually end copyright.
(Score: 3, Touché) by nethead on Friday February 10 2017, @02:44AM
Hey, at least it gets the kids out of the house for a few hours, that can be worth the ticket price right there.
How did my SN UID end up over 3 times my /. UID?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 10 2017, @04:56AM
Wait it costs more to buy online?
I think in my 45 years on this earth, and all of the times I have gone to the movies, I can count on one hand the times I was not able to get in at the time I wanted. Usually 1-2 months after release you pretty much can sit wherever you want. In no way whatsoever would I overpay to get a ticket for the theater. For a concert I can see that because, scalpers.