Conor Pope investigates the implications of owning or selling a ‘protection-defeating device’
Stock shot of a person using a streaming device amid a crack down on 'dodgy boxes' in Ireland. Photograph: Laura Hutton / The Irish TimesSorry, what’s a protection defeating device?Peter O’Mahony sees Scotland as the next big moment in a journey he wants to continueGwan out of that, of course you did - the clue is in the name and well you know it. Although for the sake of complete accuracy, we should point out that the boxes themselves are not illegal.
Okay, well dodgy boxes are also called Android boxes. And as you probably know Android is just an operating system and one which runs on all manner of different technologies including phones, tablets and firesticks. Android boxes are commonly sold in most entirely reputable electrical shops in Ireland and on online platforms, places that would never dream of falling foul of the authorities or facilitating the illegal streaming of content.Okay, maybe a history lesson would help.
Well, your “friend” is not alone in doing this. In fact there are dodgy boxes in as many as 80,000 homes around Ireland. And that is a number that is almost certainly going to rise in the months and years ahead. The simple answer to your question is that by knowingly circumventing properly applied restrictions to access copyrighted content, your “friend” is potentially exposed. But potentially exposed is a long way from being at risk of prosecution.
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