Plex's Free Movies & TV ad-supported streaming operated illegally in South Africa

[mylesillidge]

Free streaming service illegal in South Africa

The Film and Publication Board (FPB) said that Plex’s Free Movies & TV ad-supported streaming service operated in South Africa illegally.

“Plex TV was operating in contravention of the Films and Publications Act, as it did not register with the FPB as distributors of film content as required by the Act,” the FPB told MyBroadband.

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

Piss off FPB

 

[Binary_Bark]

 

[My_King]

Tuff ****.

The FPB is placing stupid numbers and letters on my stuff I do not need them for.

 

[StefanB7]

government -> why we can't have nice things

 

[WanderingMind]

Legal ways to watch anything should not be more difficult than pirating.

 

[Bad Ballie]

Sad that after decades of being upright law-abiding citizens the government has overstepped its bounds so badly that the average person no longer considers the law as anything more than a nuisance and inconvenience to be ignored as far as possible.

 

[oros]

Just like icasa, useless government agency....

 

[Smiggles]

I’ll watch it via ControlD if I want to. You can suck my whole dick FPB.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Ag shem FPB.

 

[ThinkCentre]

Are they really going after each and every site to block them from working in South Africa?

 

[Brian_G]

Internet is free from borders and any country's rules, end of...

Only those supplying services have to ever answer to their own location-country's authorities.

 

[Brian_G]

Are they really going after each and every site to block them from working in South Africa?

They would like to, but can't.

 

[TheMightyQuin]

The free stuff on Plex was no-name b-grade brand straight to video kak anyway...wtf watched that nonsense??

Use it as a media server ...that's it.

 

[Jean Claude Vaaldamme]

̶B̶a̶t̶m̶a̶n̶ Frikkie returns

 

[Swa]

An outdated dinosaur wanting money for nothing to try and justify its own existence.

 

[Brian_G]

Sign of the times - free speech restrictions and all that

 

[Brian_G]

The Film and Publication Board (FPB) said that Plex’s Free Movies & TV ad-supported streaming service operated in South Africa illegally.

They DID NOT operate in SA, they were merely accessed from SA !

 

[Smiggles]

The free stuff on Plex was no-name b-grade brand straight to video kak anyway...wtf watched that nonsense??

Use it as a media server ...that's it.

There’s the odd interesting documentary or old movie on there.

 

[adrianx]

The FPB has a really ugly logo.