Get Woke, Go Broke: Hollywood Is Dying And They Deserve It

[IseDaDiva]

You really should be careful with these "Android Boxes"! It is a legal grey zone, since you are basically streaming copyrighted things from illegal sources. But you are not distributing it, since it's not a torrent. The box itself is probably scam. You can have the same on every Android box / PC (e.g. Amazon Fire tv), just install KODI on it. That's an open source media center. And in Kodi itself you can install thousands of plug ins for everything you can possibly think of, from Amazon TV to Nasa weather sat streams. And of course a lot of illegal/dubious plugins that I won't mention here, to stream whatever you want.

By the way: Is it really possible to skip the commercials with an DVR in the US&Candada? Because in Europe that's usually blocked (as far as I know the major studios insisted to block that feature)! Background: The DVB transport stream implements an "anti skip" and "no recording" bit. Therefore that kind of stuff does not work here any more (exception: state tv-channels and sat-tv).

Edit: Of course you can use an VPN with an Android Box as well...

Yes, the boxes are a bit of a gray area, but an effort to declare them illegal was struck down because no one is actually downloading or stealing copyrighted material, but just streaming it. My friend has had hers for a couple years now with no problems, but I'll guess we'll see.

I don't believe I have any way to "skip" commercials with my DVR. I just FF them at warp speed. Even then there are so many it takes awhile.

[Socialism_is_terrorism]

Yes, the boxes are a bit of a gray area, but an effort to declare them illegal was struck down because no one is actually downloading or stealing copyrighted material, but just streaming it. My friend has had hers for a couple years now with no problems, but I'll guess we'll see.

That's good news! And when using it with a VPN it should be ok anyway. I just thought I should mention it, because in the UK a few people got convicted. They invented a weird legal twist: During the streaming, the Computer buffers (=saves temporarily) the video. Hence they claimed the users were in the possession of stolen goods.

I don't believe I have any way to "skip" commercials with my DVR. I just FF them at warp speed. Even then there are so many it takes awhile.

Sorry, I have been unclear there: I was talking about FF as well. Here fast forward is blocked during the commercial breaks, you can just use that during the film itself. And the buffering time is limited to 20 minutes as well. Very annoying!

[IseDaDiva]

That's good news! And when using it with a VPN it should be ok anyway. I just thought I should mention it, because in the UK a few people got convicted. They invented a weird legal twist: During the streaming, the Computer buffers (=saves temporarily) the video. Hence they claimed the users were in the possession of stolen goods.

Sorry, I have been unclear there: I was talking about FF as well. Here fast forward is blocked during the commercial breaks, you can just use that during the film itself. And the buffering time is limited to 20 minutes as well. Very annoying!

Wow. I had no idea this existed. Outrageous!