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Old 06-30-2014, 01:09 PM
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XBMC on my ouya! Super cheap way to have xbmc on a tv other htan hdmi through lappy
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Old 06-30-2014, 02:32 PM
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Problem with XBMC is the legality of it. Just like torrent's you could be sued for downloading copyrighted material. They are starting to bring lawsuits against people downloading this material.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/04...perts-worried/
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Old 06-30-2014, 03:41 PM
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Problem with XBMC is the legality of it. Just like torrent's you could be sued for downloading copyrighted material. They are starting to bring lawsuits against people downloading this material.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/04...perts-worried/
Some REALLY disturbing privacy issues identified in that article.
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Old 07-03-2014, 07:41 PM
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Problem with XBMC is the legality of it. Just like torrent's you could be sued for downloading copyrighted material. They are starting to bring lawsuits against people downloading this material.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/04...perts-worried/

XBMC is perfectly legal to have and use.

Saying XBMC in it self is illegal is a bit like saying your car is illegal because you can speed.

They are bring lawsuits against the downloaders, not XBMC.
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Old 07-03-2014, 08:27 PM
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XBMC is perfectly legal to have and use.

Saying XBMC in it self is illegal is a bit like saying your car is illegal because you can speed.

They are bring lawsuits against the downloaders, not XBMC.
That is why I further clarified my comment about downloading copyrighted materials which is basically how you get the movies and tv shows you want to watch without paying for cable.
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Old 07-04-2014, 12:14 AM
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gave up tv years ago and been watching the odd movies on Appletv and have a couple boxes running XBMC.XBMC n computer and laptops as well...
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Old 07-07-2014, 12:25 AM
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Any one ever wonder why TV programming isn't free since big corporations pay alot of money to have their commerals on the shows and sports we watch ? And we watch them even tho we pay for our programing?
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Old 07-07-2014, 04:31 PM
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Any one ever wonder why TV programming isn't free since big corporations pay alot of money to have their commerals on the shows and sports we watch ? And we watch them even tho we pay for our programing?
Exactly! This is why Netflix is popular. If you pay there are no commercials. Hopefully, this is the future of entertainment.
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Old 06-30-2014, 02:32 PM
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We canceled the dish about two years ago and our land lines two months ago. Mostly because of rising cost and strange charges . Plus there was not much to watch on the dish anyway. We save well over 200$ a month prob close too 300$ we use net flicks and I am going to look into use ing Xbmc
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