Kodi -- legal or illegal ?

[TheCyberQuake]

Kodi itself is legal as it is made to only stream content from your own media server. But with certain add-ons it gives access to streaming illegal content. So kodi is legal, but certain third party add-ons for it aren't.
Technically the plugins aren't illegal but the content they stream is.

 

[VashTS]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat

So I can pirate everything I want as long as I promise myself if I win the lottery to buy up everything I ever downloaded? Lets see how that works in court.

its not a matter of being ignorant to the law - its about your intention. if you intend to watch a movie which is not available for free and has a cost and you watch it for free, technically that infringes on the copyright law.

if your intention is to watch a movie which is freely distributed and you do not intend to purchase said content, you cannot call that illegal.

back to my topic of listening to the radio - is that illegal? what if i watch a movie at my friends house that i didn't buy, is that illegal? what if my neighbors are playing music loud enough that i can hear it, is that illegal?

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

The program is legal but the content used may be illegal, like, watching pirated paid content.

I don't use Kodi. It's crap. If you're going to pirate then just download the movies/shows instead.

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I don't think TV shows should be illegal to stream, since they first aired for free. Same with Anime, I'll only pay for anime if it's a Blu-ray worth owning.

There are a lot of legal websites that stream their own shows, though they're locked to their own country's IP so if an outsider tries to watch it, it's not possible. Well, at least not without a VPN.

 

[xile6]

Kodi itself is legal. Its nothing more then a video player.
But the plugins that can be added to the kodi can be illegal.

Thats pretty much what it breaks down to.

 

[Bladexdsl]

I don't use Kodi. It's crap. If you're going to pirate then just download the movies/shows instead.

if your going to use it you need a Real-Debrid account but you have to pay to use that. i agree much easier to just download what you want and play it IN KODI/SPMC via HDD connected to a kodi android box.

 

[OfficialBrony]

Kodi = legal

Plugins that stream pirated content = illegal

Exodus is CLEARLY illegal.

Lots of people say to me Kodi is being banned: Thinking Kodi is illegal is like saying a standard Ford car is illegal because it can be modified to do insane speeds, seat belts taken off, too dark tint added etc.

So are my porn add-ons illegal to?

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[KiiWii]

So are my porn add-ons illegal to?

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Are they streaming copyrighted material?

Doesn't matter if it's porn, movies, kids films: if it's copyrighted it has to be paid for to be legal to watch.

 

[FAST6191]

Doesn't matter if it's porn, movies, kids films: if it's copyrighted it has to be paid for to be legal to watch.

While some places have issues with the idea of putting something into the public domain, and a lot of the nuances of creative commons, open source and the like have yet to be thrashed out in court (nobody expects them to fail in any great capacity and the fundamentals have been tested in many places now) there are many ways for . Similarly some places will have, or did have, a baseline copyright and a copyright register for enhanced protections which can get tricky.
Either way it is entirely possibly for copyrighted works to be watched legitimately without any kind of deal in place and no money changing hands.

That said the sentiment of it is a copyrightable work and thus afforded the same protections does carry.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

people dont make films and that for nothing you know, its all a business to them and its nothing about greed or so called "corrupt governments wanting control over you" it is end of the day theft.

Since no one has done so yet I need to point out something important.
There is a very fundamental difference between piracy and theft.
When you are pirating something, you are creating a copy of it. That may or may not equate to a lost sale. The business is not directly losing money from it, they are only indirectly losing money from a portion of these copies as some people who would have bought the movie/game/whatever will pirate it instead, but that's not the case for all of them.
When you steal something, not only can it result in a lost sale, but it costs the business money as they now have one less unit of that thing. It's like a double loss.
Yes, both are illegal, and they share similarities, but they are different things.

 

[KiiWii]

While some places have issues with the idea of putting something into the public domain, and a lot of the nuances of creative commons, open source and the like have yet to be thrashed out in court (nobody expects them to fail in any great capacity and the fundamentals have been tested in many places now) there are many ways for . Similarly some places will have, or did have, a baseline copyright and a copyright register for enhanced protections which can get tricky.
Either way it is entirely possibly for copyrighted works to be watched legitimately without any kind of deal in place and no money changing hands.

That said the sentiment of it is a copyrightable work and thus afforded the same protections does carry.

I was on a coach trip once and they had a dvd of gladiator.

I watched it, for free, never paid for it.

I guess there are blurred lines with everything, but the fundamentals are that in order to watch a film (in this example), you either have to go to cinema, buy the dvd/blu ray or pay to stream it/download it through a distribution service (I.E APPLE store). If you watch it over your friends shoulder I guess its the same... if they pay and you dont..... meh who cares, just don't get caught I guess.

 

[FAST6191]

I don't know how many here have seen a DVD warning in the last few years but the part about not for public exhibition, leasing or rental would cover some of that. I don't know what the coach thing would have fallen under, and if it was the UK it could well be odder still (format shifting and time shifting was against the law for the longest time but all but completely unenforced, then something happened, and then the courts reversed it after a fashion http://www.osborneclarke.com/insights/Private-copying-in-the-UK-A-nation-of-infringers/ ) and throughout it all it was still pretty much unenforced.

 

[OfficialBrony]

Are they streaming copyrighted material?

Doesn't matter if it's porn, movies, kids films: if it's copyrighted it has to be paid for to be legal to watch.

Damn man, it was just a joke....


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