Kodi box users ‘could face up to 10 years in jail’ under new piracy laws

But it’s people selling them who’re most likely to get a knock on the door

Could users of ‘fully loaded’ Kodi boxes to hear a knock on the door – and face up to 10 years in jail for pirating films and TV shows?

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Now that the government’s Digital Economy Bill has passed, people pirating online content could (in theory) face up to 10 years in prison, including for using Kodi boxes.

But it’s likely to be sellers of the boxes who face such long sentences, according to the UK’s FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft).

The bill received Royal Assent on April 28th – meaning it passed into law.

It puts online IP crime on the same level as offline – meaning that the maximum sentence for piracy is 10 years.

But home users are still unlikely to be prosecuted, as investigations by FACT (Federation Against… Read the full story