Kodi users could now face up to 10 years in prison

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Under the recently passed Digital Economy Act, the UK government has announced it’s cracking down on the use of Kodi boxes and other devices that are being configured to enable the streaming of copyrighted content.

Under the new act, the maximum prison sentence for those found guilty of illegally streaming copyrighted media has jumped significantly from two years to ten. 

This is just the latest move from law-makers in the ongoing battle against the sale of so-called ‘fully-loaded’ Kodi boxes. 

Cracking down

Set top boxes are of course legal, and the open-source Kodi software in its vanilla configuration is a harmless

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