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NZ Court ruling Wednesday July 11 2018

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2018 1:14 am
by Feralkiwi
The New Zealand district (NZ's lowest court) has rued against an Android box seller under NZ copyright laws.
The case was brought to the court by Sky New Zealand, our satellite Pay TV company.

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https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/105426932/court-ruling-says-kodi-boxes-that-cache-copyrightinfringing-material-are-illegal]Link to stuff.co.nz report 
a NZ newspaper site.
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As for the content being "Cached", even though "programs might be held in memory on the device temporary", well every video device does this as it formats the data stream from the likes of Mpeg4 or H.265 to a video picture for the TV.

In Australia major international sport is by law free to air.
If you can log into an Australian TV streaming server, you are watching their free TV.
This sounds like what this case is about, internet access to content that Sky NZ has the exclusive broadcast writes to for New Zealand.

Any of us can do this with our PC's or laptop's.

One of the box sellers in this case,

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https://myboxnz.com/]My BoxNZ[/url], was [url=https://www.nbr.co.nz/article/sky-tv-questions-supposed-sale-my-box-125m-ck-215105]sold to Chinese buyers. 
Here is another

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https://www.nbr.co.nz/sophie-moloney]link to the story by NBR nz. 
Owen

Re: NZ Court ruling Wednesday July 11 2018

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2018 5:43 am
by Marsat
roku is the #! Media player in Northamerica
It is prohibited now in Mexico

I am lazy today just use google translate by URL LINK is in Spanish ..obviously is Mexico

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http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/techbit/roku-continua-prohibido-en-mexico 
So is not only NZ'''

And in video cache is needed

Re: NZ Court ruling Wednesday July 11 2018

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2018 8:06 am
by Feralkiwi
They seem to think the video cache is the infringement, storing / coping the video.

As I said all video devices do this.

Owen