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BTW movies are generally between 400MB and 1.4GB
Proper HD ones aren't
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BTW movies are generally between 400MB and 1.4GB
Actually the letters will be advisory & educational.Your internet service provider can tell.
A movie is probably about 4 -12GB depending on the quality.
A download of that size isn't likely to be anything else and they'll be able to see from the IP address of the server it's coming from whether or not it's a legitimate source.
That will be the one part of the crackdown when it happens: ISPs will start monitoring, when they find suspicious activity they will send you a letter to start with telling you to stop. If you don't they will be able to cut your connection off. A shared database somewhere of people who have been cut off would make it pretty hard for you to find another ISP.
The other part will be when they go after the delivery systems. Traders selling the modified boxes and fire sticks will be targeted. If you read my link in post #14 you will see that that's already starting.
The other phase of that will be to take action against the developers of Kodi itself on the grounds that they are promoting and facilitating piracy. That's exactly what happened with Napster in 2001. They lost the case, it cost them $26million to settle it and ultimately had to become a subscription based service. All the other similar music sharing services swiftly went the same way.
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There is no agreement to sanction.
And of course, if you value your privacy, use a VPN provider who doesn't keep logs.
Well yes - but "yet" in this instance means a minimum of three years [a lifetime in technology terms]
I disagree - pick a good VPN and they will retain no logsThat's pretty pointless in this case. A VPN won't help you hide from your own ISP, you're connecting via their servers whatever your IP address says. A VPN is only good for masking you from the server you're ultimately connecting to and even then most of them won't stand up to more than a casual check.
Yes but what is the difference between just watching it or recording it, surely they can't tell that?Your internet service provider can tell.
A movie is probably about 4 -12GB depending on the quality.
A download of that size isn't likely to be anything else and they'll be able to see from the IP address of the server it's coming from whether or not it's a legitimate source.
That will be the one part of the crackdown when it happens: ISPs will start monitoring, when they find suspicious activity they will send you a letter to start with telling you to stop. If you don't they will be able to cut your connection off. A shared database somewhere of people who have been cut off would make it pretty hard for you to find another ISP.
The other part will be when they go after the delivery systems. Traders selling the modified boxes and fire sticks will be targeted. If you read my link in post #14 you will see that that's already starting.
The other phase of that will be to take action against the developers of Kodi itself on the grounds that they are promoting and facilitating piracy. That's exactly what happened with Napster in 2001. They lost the case, it cost them $26million to settle it and ultimately had to become a subscription based service. All the other similar music sharing services swiftly went the same way.
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Yes but what is the difference between just watching it or recording it, surely they can't tell that?
Actually the letters will be advisory & educational.
There is no agreement to sanction.
https://torrentfreak.com/uk-pirates-get-20-day-grace-period-after-each-warning-170125/
"Of course, it is pretty much irrelevant how many emails subscribers receive, as there’s no ‘stick’ involved. Even after more than a dozen warnings, ISPs are not handing down any penalties or punishments as part of the “Get It Right” campaign."
They've even given up with the "Six Strikes" in th USA
https://torrentfreak.com/the-us-six-strikes-anti-piracy-scheme-is-dead-170128/
Of course this doesn't mean one should pirate
And of course, if you value your privacy, use a VPN provider who doesn't keep logs.
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That surely only applies to UK located VPN's & ISPs ???VPN providers are legally required to keep logs, as with all ISPs, who are collectively referred to as Communications Service Providers. Here is a sample https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...ns-data-from-communications-service-providers
I'm not a Kodi user - but it apparently does have legal uses:I can't see any way that the same could be argued about Kodi. It appears to me to be completely useless for anything other than accessing pirated video streams.
Can you or anyone else, tell me what do these people make out of such things as kodi, no adverts, no sign up , no nothing as far as I can see, why do they do it, and how do they afford it, and risk prosecution into the bargain?Kodi is arguably more exposed than Napster ever was.
Napster had an obvious potential use to allow the sharing of non-copyrighted material. OK that wasn't what Shawn Fanning built it for but that's not the point. There was a genuine use for it that didn't infringe copyright.
I can't see any way that the same could be argued about Kodi. It appears to me to be completely useless for anything other than accessing pirated video streams.
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The link just shows YouTube and stuff you can get anywhere without use kodi.I'm not a Kodi user - but it apparently does have legal uses:
http://www.htpcbeginner.com/kodi-legal-streaming-addons/
I didn't claim you couldn't, I was simply challenging the claim it has no legal useThe link just shows YouTube and stuff you can get anywhere without use kodi.
Can you or anyone else, tell me what do these people make out of such things as kodi, no adverts, no sign up , no nothing as far as I can see, why do they do it, and how do they afford it, and risk prosecution into the bargain?
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Most of the time things like Kodi and Napster start off as hobby projects for developers. They are often students or junior developers working on their own time, Napster was created by a student at Northeastern University so he could share music with his friends and it took off from there. Kodi and its XBMC and XBMP predecessors seem to have been created by a group of people but I can't find any details about them which is often the case with open source projects. They could be anyone although I'd suspect most of them have other highly paid software development jobs and just have Kodi as their hobby/side project. You have to remember that Kodi is open source so the base code for it is available to anyone to work on/tweak/improve. The etiquette for that sort of project is usually that if you make an improvement or change to the core app you share it with everyone else and nobody makes money from it. If you look on the Kodi website you can see that you can make a donation to the project if you want to. This is the traditional way that users of open source projects show their appreciation for the work of the developers.
Whoever they are they hide behind something called the XBMC Foundation which is US registered as a not for profit. Their original intension would not have been to create something to facilitate illegal piracy but like what happens with a lot of things their project has been hijacked. When the serious crackdown happens in the US they will end up being forced to either change Kodi so the illegal streams can't be accessed or shut it down altogether.
There are a couple of main ways projects like this make money if they choose to.
The first one is to sell advertising space on their site or app.
The second, and by far the most lucrative, method is from data harvesting. When you have to sign up for access you have to provide various details. Your online activity These details are sold on to advertisers so they can target advertising to you. Data harvesting is a colossal global industry, it's how Google has made its money. One example of how it works: I don't know if you use Facebook but if you do you may have noticed that if you browse shopping sites or even eBay when you next visit Facebook you will see adverts for the last products you looked at. Google collects this data and sells it to the advertisers who pay Facebook for it to appear on your page. Facebook has made Mark Zuckerburg a billionaire by selling advertising space and the personal information about its users.
Can you or anyone else, tell me what do these people make out of such things as kodi, no adverts, no sign up , no nothing as far as I can see, why do they do it, and how do they afford it, and risk prosecution into the bargain?
I can't answer that so we should be very worried because there's usually £££$$$ lurking somewhere.
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It really does appear that Kodi/XBMC/XBMP is a genuine open source project.
The Foundation is definitely registered as not for profit and in the US if you take the piss out of that sort of status you go to prison.
Of course The Big One, Linux is.
But what does not for profit mean ? Can I set up a not for profit, sell my incredible WonderApp for £1m a year and pay my wages of, you guessed, £1m a year. No profit, just legit expenses.
I believe there are many "charities" with a special breed of high living Yank charity lawyers out there, kidding people they are donating to a non profit organisation. I did check one, my wife wasted some ££ on them, until I showed her the sea front house the boss was living in and even I could see from the accounts there was only one beneficiary from this charity. Charity begins at home, doesn't it.
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