{"id":260241,"date":"2018-05-16T16:02:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T14:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=260241"},"modified":"2018-05-16T16:05:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T14:05:10","slug":"roku-hit-by-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/260241-roku-hit-by-outage.html","title":{"rendered":"Roku hit by outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roku devices have been affected by an outage which lasted several hours, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2018\/digital\/news\/roku-outage-fbi-warnings-1202811988\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Owners of streaming devices and TVs based on the platform were not able to load channels such as Netflix or YouTube, and reported that they saw an FBI anti-piracy takedown notice on their displays.<\/p>\n<p>The notice stated that the channels were removed due to repeated claims of copyright infringement.<\/p>\n<p>According to Roku, only a small number of users were affected, but according to reports, several users had taken to social media to ask why they were seeing the FBI notice.<\/p>\n<p>Users also reported that\u00a0FoxSportsGo, FandangoNow, Hotstar, YuppTV, and Gaia were affected by the outage.<\/p>\n<p>By 06:00 South Africa time, Roku posted an update to confirm that the issue had been resolved, which was called a &#8220;technical glitch&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/IRODJR6\/status\/996572182561067010<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/249619-roku-plummets-after-first-quarter-sales-forecast.html\">Roku plummets after first-quarter sales forecast<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roku devices were affected by an outage which lasted several hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":231385,"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":[24],"tags":[28212],"class_list":["post-260241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-roku"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260241"}],"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=260241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260357,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260241\/revisions\/260357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}