We’re incredulous that this is actually legal: a box from Nextedi called the TVBrick Home Server that hooks up to your television and then via a home network streams the channels onto the Internet so that “family members” in other countries can watch their favorite TV shows from back home. The manufacturer says that since a password is required for access to the streams, and since sharing television programming “within the same family” is legal in Europe and Japan, everything is on the up and up. Anyone know for sure if this is true? Read [Via Gen Kanai]… [Gizmodo]
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