Kodi add on

Hootsmon

is there an add on prog for all those old b&w  30s 40s & 50s movies?

monquixote

Please don't share techniques to share pirated material or this thread will be deleted.

Hootsmon

Oh I had no idea.....is someone allowed to pipe up with a good ad on for old black and whites  though?

if not you can just give the post the bum's rush

octatonic

hootsmon said:

Oh I had no idea.....is someone allowed to pipe up with a good ad on for old black and whites  though?

if not you can just give the post the bum's rush

Only if it is a legal link, which they are almost certainly not going to be.

Hootsmon

MonQ....just pull the plug baby

Emp_Fab

Actually, I'm sure there are plugins for watching really old B&W films that nobody gives a monkeys about anymore.  I'm sure they are legal.

Handsome_Chris

Is this Kodi business legal?  I was working on the understanding that it was a bit dodgy, like Napster and The Dark Web?

Flink_Poyd

Kodi itself is completely legal. Using add ons to access copyrighted material is where it becomes dodgy Handsome_Chris said:

Is this Kodi business legal?  I was working on the understanding that it was a bit dodgy, like Napster and The Dark Web?

monquixote

Handsome_Chris said:

Is this Kodi business legal?  I was working on the understanding that it was a bit dodgy, like Napster and The Dark Web?

Kodi is legal. 

Watching copyright content via dodgy apps is not.

DarnWeight

Emp_Fab said:

Actually, I'm sure there are plugins for watching really old B&W films that nobody gives a monkeys about anymore.  I'm sure they are legal.

There are about a gazillion old movie channels I can access on my little Roku stick, so yeah, if they're that old, it doesn't matter how you watch 'em.

fretmeister

DarnWeight said:

Emp_Fab said:

Actually, I'm sure there are plugins for watching really old B&W films that nobody gives a monkeys about anymore.  I'm sure they are legal.

There are about a gazillion old movie channels I can access on my little Roku stick, so yeah, if they're that old, it doesn't matter how you watch 'em.

Having a quick google...

Apparently it can be..

For films, life + 70 years for the last to die of: principal director, author of screenplay, author of dialogue, or composer of music specifically created for and used in the film

BUT

If it is based on release date..

50 years from end of calendar year when the broadcast was first made (broadcasts)


But I can't tell which approach would apply to any particular film- broadcast or age of the principals. And for a cinema film is the first broadcast considered to be the premiere showing anywhere in the world?

I found some lists of public domain films but those lists appear to be based on USA law which doesn't apply here - and many of them appear to be because of a failure to renew Copyright.

So presumably copyright can be renewed, at least in the US, which may well render the broadcast date pretty worthless.

So - fuck knows.

fretmeister

And...

It appears than any film released before 1923 in the USA is out of copyright - in the USA.

Does that apply here too?

Fuck knows.

Although I suspect that if it is a US production from that long ago they are not going to be chasing anyone anywhere else for watching it.

digitalscream

So...the official position from our resident qualified law expert is..."fuck knows".

I presume that's the legal equivalent of us techies saying, "Dunno...have you tried turning it off and on again?"...?

darthed1981

Public domain films are a thing, they are few and far between though, and aren't going to let you catch up on Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd or Charlie Chaplin. 

Bear in mind these only become watchable in digital form because someone sat, scanned and restored them, sometimes painstakingly over a long period.  That person/people would require payment.

There is a great selection of classic films on BFI Player Plus, for a measly £4.99 per month.  So for a pint of beer you could fill most of your spare time.

DiscoStu

I installed Kodi on my Android tablet after the last Kodi thread but I've yet to try it.

fretmeister

digitalscream said:

So...the official position from our resident qualified law expert is..."fuck knows".

I presume that's the legal equivalent of us techies saying, "Dunno...have you tried turning it off and on again?"...?

I've got a few of the dedicated music copyright texts, but nothing on films and telly.

I like old films too - but I'm happy to buy used DVDs on Amazon for pennies. Some mental bargains on there sometimes.

I got Series 1 of CSI (I never saw the first series) for a whopping.... 54 pence!

Handsome_Chris

digitalscream said:

So...the official position from our resident qualified law expert is..."fuck knows".

I presume that's the legal equivalent of us techies saying, "Dunno...have you tried turning it off and on again?"...?

As far as I'm concerned I'll take it as read that it's all legal.  You guys wouldn't let iyt on here if it wasn't!

digitalscream

Handsome_Chris said:

digitalscream said:

So...the official position from our resident qualified law expert is..."fuck knows".

I presume that's the legal equivalent of us techies saying, "Dunno...have you tried turning it off and on again?"...?

As far as I'm concerned I'll take it as read that it's all legal.  You guys wouldn't let iyt on here if it wasn't!

That's a bit arse-about-face, dude. I was hoping that @fretmeister would share some black-and-white (heh) wisdom, but apparently we're either not paying him enough or we're paying him waaaaay too much

fretmeister

Handsome_Chris said:

digitalscream said:

So...the official position from our resident qualified law expert is..."fuck knows".

I presume that's the legal equivalent of us techies saying, "Dunno...have you tried turning it off and on again?"...?

As far as I'm concerned I'll take it as read that it's all legal.  You guys wouldn't let iyt on here if it wasn't!

Don't do that.

If you ask for an app that allows very old public domain movies to be watched but the app also allows copyrighted content to be watched then the problem remains.

darthed1981

fretmeister said:

I like old films too - but I'm happy to buy used DVDs on Amazon for pennies. Some mental bargains on there sometimes.

QFT - often literally pennies.

It's a shame that the "That's Entertainment" chain had it's time then faded away, they had incredible bargains, I bought Tommy Lee Jones disaster classic Volcano in there for about a quid.

Col_Decker

I deleted my Kodi app once they started handing out £10k fines for using it.