Illegal Streaming Scare Stories
Streaming is Fun
We Brits like nothing more than a good TV series or an entertaining film. the thing is that as the world becomes ever more impoverished the quality of Films and TV is going down.
People of a certain age will recall no-doubt tat TV shows and films of yesteryear were much better and regret that they are only occasionally shown on the 124 freeview channels.
Conversely there are those who like nothing more than to watch block buster films in the privacy of their own home.
To this end the famous KODI Box was invented. In its purest form it is a media player that will play all of your stored digital content to your TVs, Phones or whatever connected devices you have. It is great at doing so.
Like any great device you can get plugins that add to its functionality and somewhere down the line media streaming happened. Now with the aid of your plugins you can get a t all sorts of TV and film. Some ancient and some very new.. still in the cinema new (allegedly).
The Big Ass
The Recording ASSociation is of course trying to protect its own intellectual property, after all it payed for the films and TV shows to be made.. or its members did… or someone somewhere knows someone somewhere else who in between interfering with the cast in an very inappropriate way spent a few quid making a second rate film.
Any company that invented something has the right to protect its investment and of course the rule copyright is that you can only make copies according to the copyright statement on the product and that you cannot simply share what you have with the world.
This would mean lost revenue and hence lost tax. That’s why the government is interested.
Rather than telling people who own KODI boxes that they shouldn’t really be breaking copyright laws, it has turned into a scare story about electrical faults. The general publis being stupid (in the government’s eyes) cannot be trusted to stop downloading or streaming illegal content. Instead they have to be scared out of it.
As we all know, adding software to your device could make it explode and set fire to your house.
Strange then that there are 1 billion phone handsets that (except Samsung Galaxy) haven’t exploded yet.
Have a look at the link below but beware, it does contain a significant amount of scare mongering.
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/government-publishes-laws-kodi-amid-13937768
For heaven’s sake, this is a Copyright and lost tax revenue issue nothing to do with hell-fire and brimstone!
