vSeeBox

[myrdale]

A coworker told me about vSeeBox earlier this week. $400 to purchase a black box which subscription free allows access to most live TV and streaming services. Owning the box, obviously isn't illegal. Operating it on the other hand is kind of a gray area.

Has anyone here had experience with this technology?

[bjl584]

A friend of mine has one.
It works. He gets basically everything with it.
Legally it is definitely a gray area.
Not sure there is anyway to ever get caught, or what consequences would be.
Use at your own risk

[GoodLiving]

Yeah, a friend of mine also has one but I did my research and decided that $400 is too much to try it and discover that it gets shut down in a few months. It's not worth it for me. I also have had experiences with my ex who would download on my internet copyrighted stuff and the internet company would send me emails threatening to cut me off from the service is they continued to do it.

[myrdale]

Legally it is definitely a gray area.

That was sort of my opinion of it.

There is a larger discussion developing out there about what it means to "own" a particular piece of media and what constitutes piracy.

Between Amazon and Steam, there are many reports of movies or games that people have purchased, being removed from the platform. We're nearly at the point where 100% of the content we consume is streaming only, removing our ability to share with friends or family.

At least with ITunes, I am able to download and backup the MP3 files I've purchased. With my Blu-Ray / DVD collection, they are all saved to a NAS. I know it's only words, and I'm sure it's buried in the fine print, but I believe they should change their description from buying a product to renting the product, if you don't possess the right to use that product into perpetuity.