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**Chris** · 09-02-2017, 18:23

As with illegal drug use, the police will only do you for possession if they trip over you. They have limited resources so they only actively go after the facilitators, hence the raids in northwest England this week which picked on the people loading Kodi plus addons to devices described as STBs (though which I think are likely to be Fire sticks).

Even so, people should be aware that since 2005 the Fraud Act has existed, explicitly to allow the police to go after people who take services without paying for them in exactly the same way as they go after people for theft of physical items. So if, for example, you are using a fully loaded Kodi implementation to access a pay-TV stream for free, and you should be paying for it, then that constitutes a criminal offence under the Fraud Act. The consequences of this are an order of magnitude more serious than the civil offence of copyright infringement, which is all you are liable for if you have a single, unlicensed copy of a blockbuster movie on your hard drive.

If they catch you, of course.

09-02-2017, 18:23	#10
Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 36,928	Re: Kodi, legit or not? As with illegal drug use, the police will only do you for possession if they trip over you. They have limited resources so they only actively go after the facilitators, hence the raids in northwest England this week which picked on the people loading Kodi plus addons to devices described as STBs (though which I think are likely to be Fire sticks). Even so, people should be aware that since 2005 the Fraud Act has existed, explicitly to allow the police to go after people who take services without paying for them in exactly the same way as they go after people for theft of physical items. So if, for example, you are using a fully loaded Kodi implementation to access a pay-TV stream for free, and you should be paying for it, then that constitutes a criminal offence under the Fraud Act. The consequences of this are an order of magnitude more serious than the civil offence of copyright infringement, which is all you are liable for if you have a single, unlicensed copy of a blockbuster movie on your hard drive. If they catch you, of course.