{"id":224658,"date":"2017-08-16T08:51:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=224658"},"modified":"2017-08-16T08:52:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:52:46","slug":"roku-cracks-down-on-pirate-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/224658-roku-cracks-down-on-pirate-channels.html","title":{"rendered":"Roku cracks down on pirate channels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roku has started showing a warning message when installing channels from outside its official store, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/roku-gets-tough-on-pirate-channels-warns-users-170815\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TorrentFreak reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Roku was named in a Mexican legal battle, which resulted in a court ordering retailers to remove its media player from their shelves.<\/p>\n<p>The company told TorrentFreak the warning message is intended to encourage users not to blindly add channels from outside the official store.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do not recommend, promote, or encourage the use of any channels not found in the Roku Channel Store,&#8221; said Roku.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are actively cooperating with the content community and other rights holders in their efforts to combat piracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Roku warned that if a channel on its platform is violating copyright, it will take action &#8211; which includes disabling the channel.<\/p>\n<p>There have been reports that several pirate channels have already been removed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Roku-channel-warning.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-224670\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Roku-channel-warning.png\" alt=\"Roku channel warning\" width=\"608\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Roku-channel-warning.png 608w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Roku-channel-warning-600x264.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/201878-boomerang-new-5-per-month-video-streaming-service.html\">Boomerang &#8211; new $5-per-month video streaming service<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roku has started showing a warning message when installing channels from outside its official store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":224676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[28212],"class_list":["post-224658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-roku"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224720,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224658\/revisions\/224720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}