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Studios Sue Dragon Box in Latest Crackdown on Streaming Devices (variety.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Netflix and Amazon joined with the major studios on Wednesday in a lawsuit against Dragon Box, as the studios continue their crackdown on streaming devices. The suit accuses Dragon Box of facilitating piracy by making it easy for customers to access illegal streams of movies and TV shows. Some of the films available are still in theaters, including Disney's "Coco," the suit alleges. Dragon Box has advertised the product as a means to avoid paying for authorized subscription services, the complaint alleges, quoting marketing material that encourages users to "Get rid of your premium channels ... [and] Stop paying for Netflix and Hulu." The same studios filed a similar complaint in October against TickBox, another device that enables users to watch streaming content. Both TickBox and Dragon Box make use of Kodi add-ons, a third-party software application.
Kodi can be installed on Windows so by your logic Windows facilitates piracy.
I'm god, but it's a bit of a drag really...
It's not Kodi but the plugins to access these streams that facilitate piracy. Kodi has legitimate use, it's what I use to get (legal) TV, movies and music around the house.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
I had never heard of Dragon Box. Thanks for the pointer, major studios. And please become familiar with the Streisand Effect.
How can anyone take them seriously with statements such as "any units bought from eBay or Amazon from an unauthorized dealer will results in your IP and Mac Address blocked from our Server" on their website? Neither of those are hard to modify.
Yep, I never spell check.
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cds with rootkits
Be or ben't
It has a warning about buying a third party "dragon box" which would be using their proprietary Android implementation. So they don't want people pirating their stuff that they sell to people to pirate other peoples stuff.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
>>Please learn to pirate, so that your video habits will stop being used to legitimize the ridiculous idea that software shouldn't be end-user maintainable.
So a studio who paid $100M to create a movie should gift it to you in order that you are able to... do what with it exactly? Copy it onto a second device? A third? Your boyfriend's? Your D&D Club's server? The internet? Help me out with this one... Seems as though if every movie was distributed for free, the creators would lack motivation to give us nice things. What am I missing, I'm not getting the "ridiculous idea" part at all...