Major newspapers of the United Kingdom, such as: The Mirror, Daily Mail, The Sun and Express, report that anyone who watches streaming via Kodi faces a risk of ten years imprisonment. Of course it is a fake news story that was created for click-bait. Dozens of other posts of the same “news”.
Today, in fact the Sunday Express raised the stakes by stating that the readers of TorrentFreak could also end up in prison.
Piracy has always been a logically popular topic in the United Kingdom, and there shouldn't be anyone today who hasn't become involved or hasn't encountered the phenomenon in some way.
Recently, with the release of TV Boxes that have the completely legal software Kodi installed, which is complemented by addons that offer free access to high‑quality movies, TV channels and live sports, piracy has become fully accessible even to those who are beginners with any kind of technology.
We already mentioned the topic, but it seems that British newspapers have started publishing sensational stories about Kodi and piracy in general, often recycling the same story with click-bait headlines SHOCKING, YOU JUST WON'T BELIEVE.
10 years imprisonment for Kodi users?
The above report published by the Daily Express is characteristic of all those that have been published recently. The name Kodi is a very popular search term, and issues related to the application are constantly being discovered. Intellectual property issues that do not apply.
As mentioned this week, the law on the digital economy imposes penalties for copyright infringement offenses ranging from two to ten years, but only under specific circumstances. This does not apply to users who stream content at home via Kodi.
In order for a user to be arrested and jailed, they must publicly share a copyrighted work.
In piracy terms, it means “upload” or “upload” but those who transmit content via Kodi do nothing of the sort.
This particular Law does not mention any solution at all for dealing with streaming content from users, period.
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