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Guessing no sense I have to ask.
https://www.muviboxes.com/
If it is real how come I never heard of it?
https://www.muviboxes.com/
If it is real how come I never heard of it?
https://www.muviboxes.com/how-it-worksMuviBox is just a media player. Think of it as an iPod which streams music and videos. In order for you to stream the content to your iPod you must have iTunes stream it to you. In essence, the iPod is the MuviBox and iTunes are the Add-ons inside the MuviBox Player which allow you to watch the content that are hosted by third parties.
They're claiming that since you're not downloading and just streaming it's not illegal. Not sure if that's going to hold up in court. Are the packets sent any differently when it's stream than if it's downloaded?
Yeah sounds illegal to me. That said if you use a VPN I think you're ok. They look for torrent packets but with vpn they'll just see encrypted data.
They aren't even looking for packets. The copyright hounds look at the IP's connected to the torrent. With the VPN you'd be connecting via another IP, but ultimately, the whole notion you are protected due to VPN is a lie for most of them. Question becomes how badly they want it.
Aren't VPNs generally expected to protect the privacy of their users? Not talking about Jim Bob's free VPN, but reputable paid services.
Aren't VPNs generally expected to protect the privacy of their users? Not talking about Jim Bob's free VPN, but reputable paid services.
They are expected to, but ultimately if you are paying for them, there's a record somewhere and if they get subpeona'd all bets are off. It's happened before.
http://www.businessinsider.com/are-streaming-sites-legal-2014-4When the user downloads even part of a file — called "pseudo-streaming" — it counts as a copy of copyrighted material, which is illegal. And when the user streams content as a "public performance" — namely, when it's shown to a substantial number of people outside the normal family circle and its close acquaintances — it also constitutes a copyright violation.
Outside of these cases, accessing unlicensed streamed content is generally legal.
On the other side of the screen, however, uploading or posting unlicensed streamed content is illegal — even if it's free, according to Gibson. "That's the most basic part of copyright — protection of your work. When someone uploads a video online, they're literally making a copy," he said.
https://torrentfreak.com/vpn-provider-pia-exits-russia-server-seizures-160712/Has it happened with VPNs that claim to not keep logs? Genuinely curious.
Private Internet Access is informing users that some of its servers in Russia may have been seized by the authorities. The company believes that it may have been targeted due to its strict no-logging policy, something which puts it at odds with Russian data-retention rules.
“All of the responses from [email provider] 1&1, Facebook, Twitter, and Tracfone have been traced by IP address back to a company named London Trust Media [doing business as] PrivateInternetAccess.com.”
By this point in the complaint it’s clear that even without the IP address information the FBI already had enough evidence to pin the threats on McWaters. Nevertheless, they ordered PIA to hand over its logs.
“A subpoena was sent to London Trust Media and the only information they could provide is that the cluster of IP addresses being used was from the east coast of the United States,” the FBI’s complaint reads.
“However, London Trust did provide that they accept payment for their services through credit card with a vendor company of Stripe and/or Amazon. They also accept forms of payment online through PayPal, Bitpay, Bit Coin, Cash You, Ripple, Ok Pay, and Pay Garden.”
In the event the FBI was unable to link McWaters to any payment to the company. However, they did find a payment to another provider.
“Although the investigation has not revealed any payment by McWaters to London Trust, he did make a purchase from AnchorFree Inc [HotspotShield VPN] on October 23, 2015,” the complaint notes.