Confused about vpn

[Sjolsen]

Sorry in advance, but I've been reading and searching for a bit. I'm planning on an avov 2 and I'm not sure about if I need to run a vpn. I just don't want to run into any issues when it shows. I do run rocket now, just don't know all that much about iptv

[Alucard]

You might look at the laws in your area but streaming is not illegal at this moment but you are running in a gray area. It is illegal to download copyrighted content but you are not downloading it. The gray area is that you cannot download any part of the content and you could consider what ever is in the buffers as a partial download. Now if you do wish to use a VPN, make sure that you get a good one. I use PureVPN and it has been working very well for me.

Go get a cheap router from Goodwill that you can load like DD-WRT on and set it up as your VPN Router. Then you can setup your box to just use the VPN router for all the content but might have issues if you plan on using Netflix or other services that are region locked depending on your drop point. In that case you probably want to setup specific IPs that you want to send through the VPN router.

[4wheelin]

MPAA shuts down major torrent sites, including Popcorn Time

The site that provides much of the content for illegal movies shown on the "Popcorn Time" app, PopcornTime.io, has been shut down after the Motion Picture Association of America won court orders in Canada and New Zealand.

"Popcorn Time and YTS are illegal platforms that exist for one clear reason: to distribute stolen copies of the latest motion pictures and television shows without compensating the people who worked so hard to make them," said MPAA Chairman Chris Dodd in a statement (PDF).

According to the piracy news site TorrentFreak, YTS stopped functioning in mid-October. Now the MPAA has taken credit for that and the PopcornTime.io shutdown. MPAA sued three "key Canadian operators" of PopcornTime.io on October 9 in Federal Court in Canada. PopcornTime.io was said by its operators to be the "official" PopcornTime fork. On October 16, the MPAA's member studios obtained an injunction ordering the site to shut down.

Popcorn Time has been called "BitTorrent for dummies," and it used a simple Netflix-like interface to allow watching of copyrighted content. Earlier this year, several batches of lawsuits in the US were also aimed at individual users of the service.

The MPAA statement cites comScore data as showing 1.5 million visits to PopcornTime.io in July alone. If those visitors downloaded the Popcorn Time app, they were then "able to illegally watch thousands of stolen motion pictures and television shows," the organization said.

As for YTS, that was shut down pursuant to a New Zealand court order. It was considered the home of YIFY, a "release group" that copied the movies and put them online in the first place. TorrentFreak points out that YIFY also controlled Demonii, the biggest BitTorrent tracker, and that BitTorrent download times for illegal material are likely to slow down after the latest series of MPAA-driven shutdowns.