I’m visiting other companies for work every now and then.

If they are in a fancy new steel-and-concrete office building with open space offices, chances are that cell reception is very bad. I once was in an office where I’m certain they had installed cell blockers on the toilets.

I just looked into it briefly and you’re right, there seems to have been some development:

Full text: https://www.juraforum.de/news/boersebz-direct-downloads-verletzen-urheberrechte_247270

Translation: Criminal liability of the downloader

However, users who download this data also infringe copyrights if it is obvious to a reasonable and fair-minded person that the public presentation (the offer on the servers of the one-click hoster) is made without the permission of the actual rights holder. This is certainly the case if, for example, a film is offered before its theatrical release. However, the obviousness should also be given after the theatrical release, since no one can expect a film production company to make its films available free of charge on servers of one-click hosts.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

It also states that downloaders are currently not being pursued, because it is too difficult to prove.

Very much depends on the country, though. In Germany for example, it is illegal to actively share media (so upload via torrent), but it’s “legal” (ie, not fineable) to stream or download via one-click-hosters.

I’ll check it out, thanks!

Huh? Can you elaborate? I have an LG TV with webOS (useless), so I’m about to buy an Android box.

I briefly looked into this, but then reddit shit the bed :-)

Can you be a little more specific? I’m in Europe. Who do I have to pay to get access to a sweet server? I’m only watching English content.

Thanks!

I’ll check this out, thanks!

Very nice, thanks for the write up!