Matrix Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Popular streaming device Roku will go back on sale in Mexico after a ruling by a court in Mexico City. The device has been off the shelves for more than a year following an initially successful copyright complaint by TV company Cablevision. However, that ruling has now been overturned and Roku declared legal, paving the way for a full return to the streaming market in Mexico. Commercial streaming-capable devices are often designed to receive officially licensed programming but many can be reprogrammed to do illegal things. Manufacturers say they are not responsible for this behavior but last year in Mexico, that position was successfully challenged. Following a complaint filed by cable TV provider Cablevision, the Superior Court of Justice of the City of Mexico handed down an order preventing the importation of Roku devices and prohibiting stores such as Amazon, Liverpool, El Palacio de Hierro, and Sears from putting them on sale. Cablevision complained that pirated content was being made available through Roku devices, with claims of more than 300 channels of unauthorized content being supplied to consumers. Following a swift appeal by Roku, the sales ban was quickly overturned by a federal judge. However, on June 28, 2017, a Mexico City tribunal upheld the previous decision which banned importation and distribution of Roku devices. Several appeals followed, without success, leading to Roku declaring the ban unjust. Now, however, and after an extended period off the shelves, Roku has booked a significant legal victory. A ruling handed down by the 11th Collegiate Court in Mexico City has found that the original ban was incorrect and the Roku device isn’t illegal, which means that the streaming hardware will soon be back on sale. The Court reportedly acknowledged Roku’s efforts to keep pirated content away from its platform, an opinion also shared by Cablevision. However, should pirate channels appear on Roku in the future, Cablevision warned that it would take further legal action to have those sources blocked via the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property and other local authorities. The decision of the Mexico City Court was welcomed by Roku General Counsel Stephen Kay. “Today’s decision is an important victory for Roku and its Mexican distributor, Latamel Distribuidora, S. de R.L. de C.V. and Mexican retailers in the legal battle against an improper ban on sales of its popular streaming players in Mexico. We are pleased with the Collegiate Court’s decision and look forward to continuing to build Roku’s TV streaming business in Mexico,” Kay said. Noting that streaming is the future of TV, offering greater choice for consumers alongside better value for money, Roku Chief Marketing Officer Matthew Anderson thanked the company’s customers in Mexico who continued to use the device over the past year, despite the troubles. “We are grateful for our customers in Mexico who, despite the sales ban, continued to stream more and more hours; and for our retail partners and content providers who supported us throughout this past year. We look forward to launching the latest Roku devices in Mexico soon and giving customers an even richer streaming experience,” Anderson said. Roku devices are expected to become available again during the next few weeks via distributors including Amazon, Best Buy, Office Depot, Radio Shack, Sears, and Walmart. source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular streaming device Roku will go back on sale in Mexico after a ruling by a court in Mexico City. The device has been off the shelves for more than a year following an initially successful copyright complaint by TV company Cablevision. However, that ruling has now been overturned and Roku declared legal, paving the way for a full return to the streaming market in Mexico. Commercial streaming-capable devices are often designed to receive officially licensed programming but many can be reprogrammed to do illegal things. Manufacturers say they are not responsible for this behavior but last year in Mexico, that position was successfully challenged. Following a complaint filed by cable TV provider Cablevision, the Superior Court of Justice of the City of Mexico handed down an order preventing the importation of Roku devices and prohibiting stores such as Amazon, Liverpool, El Palacio de Hierro, and Sears from putting them on sale. Cablevision complained that pirated content was being made available through Roku devices, with claims of more than 300 channels of unauthorized content being supplied to consumers. Following a swift appeal by Roku, the sales ban was quickly overturned by a federal judge. However, on June 28, 2017, a Mexico City tribunal upheld the previous decision which banned importation and distribution of Roku devices. Several appeals followed, without success, leading to Roku declaring the ban unjust. Now, however, and after an extended period off the shelves, Roku has booked a significant legal victory. A ruling handed down by the 11th Collegiate Court in Mexico City has found that the original ban was incorrect and the Roku device isn’t illegal, which means that the streaming hardware will soon be back on sale. The Court reportedly acknowledged Roku’s efforts to keep pirated content away from its platform, an opinion also shared by Cablevision. However, should pirate channels appear on Roku in the future, Cablevision warned that it would take further legal action to have those sources blocked via the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property and other local authorities. The decision of the Mexico City Court was welcomed by Roku General Counsel Stephen Kay. “Today’s decision is an important victory for Roku and its Mexican distributor, Latamel Distribuidora, S. de R.L. de C.V. and Mexican retailers in the legal battle against an improper ban on sales of its popular streaming players in Mexico. We are pleased with the Collegiate Court’s decision and look forward to continuing to build Roku’s TV streaming business in Mexico,” Kay said. Noting that streaming is the future of TV, offering greater choice for consumers alongside better value for money, Roku Chief Marketing Officer Matthew Anderson thanked the company’s customers in Mexico who continued to use the device over the past year, despite the troubles. “We are grateful for our customers in Mexico who, despite the sales ban, continued to stream more and more hours; and for our retail partners and content providers who supported us throughout this past year. We look forward to launching the latest Roku devices in Mexico soon and giving customers an even richer streaming experience,” Anderson said. Roku devices are expected to become available again during the next few weeks via distributors including Amazon, Best Buy, Office Depot, Radio Shack, Sears, and Walmart.
straycat19 Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 This problem is easily solved in the U.S. by Congress passing a law requiring device manufacturers, like Roku and Kodi, to make their device incapable of being hacked and develop a system to remotely disable any current device that has been modified. That technical capability currently exists and I have it on good authority that several Senators have had discussions with the FCC on the matter. This is actually no different than what the cable companies did 20 years ago in tracking down cable service theft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 3 hours ago, straycat19 said: Kodi, to make their device incapable of being hacked and develop a system to remotely disable any current device that has been modified Kodi is open source software meaning even if they done that it would be there choice and the code is already there for the taking. it just like when they closed down limewire . limewire gave its code to open source and other devs forked it and it's still available for download in like 3 programs that's still developed just BitTorrent has replaced the gnutella network in popularity now. That's like saying if they changed utorrent were it could not download illegal torrents that it would effect the BitTorrent ecosystem when its already been open sourced a 100 times in other programs. Kodi has already been forked many times them doing that would stop nothing people would just use old versions and forks like they do of utorrent already . Old KODI / XBMC didn't have good ssl site support but that was fixed in v17 so anyone can fork it in it's present state and it would still keep working great . Not everyone uses Kodi no way some use forks of Kodi already, the U.S. dont have no control over no open source . So keep dreaming because even stuff they backdoored with the help of snitch devs was easily forked and patched in a update they couldn't even get apple to backdoor there phones and it's closed source so keep dreaming . Even former fbi director James Comey said if they could back door closed source, open source would always be a problem because they have no control over it. Anything can be hacked /cracked passing laws have never stopped it . They put DRM in games , software and videos everyday and they get cracked every day .. Windows is a shinning example of this it was cracked so many times they not even tried to stop it since windows 7 was new . Android software is cracked everyday too , Also the scene releases cracked stuff for MAC OS and Linux everyday too . And Roku most likely already is spyware because its closed source Quote Roku is effectively a "black box" on your network - there's no way to know what data it's collecting and reporting back. I dont really like using Windows because its closed source. Only i use 2 closed source apps i allow internet with my firewall on Windows and most call homes windows does i keep blocked and i only use one closed source app on Linux that I allow internet. Only way i allow internet is if i trust the company but if a app dont have a reason to be online i block it anyway , unless the code is open source were i can see it. there is no way they could put a backdoor in Kodi to remove anything from old versions without changing the source code and updating it with malicious code . I wonder what the rest of the world would have to say since kodi is hosted all over the world on different servers if it was backdoored by the US Government ? Some devs tired to make skins and addons before with malicious code and it never went over well with the community at all. All the DEVs removed that code from there skins , addons and repos as soon as someone read the code and exposed them. its like this article Beware This Kodi Feature That Could Be Spying on You https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/kodi-remote-access-spying/ Fact is there remote access is turned off in kodi by default and only way they could get remote access to a machine is if you turn it on . By default it dont have remote access on . If you turn it on because you need it you just change the password to something Kodi dont have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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