šŸ›‘ TorBox Changes Their Terms of Service & Users Aren't Happy

I realize that and I’m not complaining, just asking a question? As I have said, I’ve been in other forums and the discussions are all over the place? I’ve been told that canceling my TB account was an overreaction, was it? I, like many, listen to what Troy says and I’m just trying to get the best information possible.

Thank you!

Not Troy but I think cancelling your Torbox account definitely an overreaction. I’m still using it and plan to keep on using it as long as streams get delivered. BUT that’s me you gotta do what’s right for you

@azcoyotedog no worries in this community we do try to stay organized and respectful of others everyone here has opinions and we are all jokesters as well you need to take what you learn and apply it to your situation everybody’s is different. we may debate which is a rare thing these days. but as in life listen and learn. but always remember, what you have learned. :smile: as for Torbox I disabled in my addons but since that was all I have at the moment re-enabled on one of them for now. so if you look at things like this guy everything will be just fine LOL

Thank you Reece, for posting this article.

SoloWarrior, this was just the point I was simply trying to make. If a person has a movie on their home pc and sends it to a friend, then the person that sends that movie could be in trouble. So, according to the article,The debrid service is storing a movie on their servers, and they are sending that movie to you. So the debrid service is truly the one that would be trouble.

I requested a refund and said the reason was due to the change in C and T after I subscribed and they sent a refund for the time I had left.

@JerryJ

It’s true that the Debrid services have clouds that store content. It’s not exactly correct to say that they send content to you. You have to go digitally to get it.

Please bear with me. I’m just trying to get a full understanding of the process and where the debrid service benefits by stating that they are keeping logs on a user.

Quoted from above. ā€œA debrid service takes a torrent-based source, downloads it on its own fast servers.ā€

My best guess is that this is a CYA, for the service, If you get busted they would be able to defend against a lawsuit that a user might file for personal damages.

They are having copyrighted material downloaded to their servers and allowing them to be shared without the rights holders permission. When a DMCA takedown notice os issued then TorBox will have to remove it or face criminal prosecution. They are in fact allowing distribution of that material using their infrastructure which is illegal. The authorities won’t bother with end users who stream said copyrighted material as ot isn’t illegal to do so for personal use as long as you aren’t recording it or redistributing it or downloading it to your own server and redistributing it for financial gain.

@JerryJ Yeah, the boilerplate statements regarding protecting their customers is horsesh!t. That said, a debrid service can correctly claim that there are very legitimate uses for their platforms…not a great analogy, but you might remember the content giants putting significant effort into trying to squash VCRs and even cassette recorders.

Thank you for the reply Miki!

elginherd, You might not be old enough to remember Napster. Many were able to download a lot of music from that app. The only one that got nailed, in the end, was the the developer of that app. Far too many users to chase down and punish. And wasn’t there an app, about 10-15 years ago that had movies that you could watch on your home computer?

Ultimately, I would think that the biggest issue would be Joe’s Bar, down the street showing the latest copyrighted material as entertainment for the clientele would be the target.

Honestly they wouldn’t know if you stream it for personal use or if you are downloading it to ā€œprofitā€ from it. Torbox shows all cached streams you watch as ā€œDownloadsā€.

Thanks for sharing. I like the writing style. I just read another article on the site about OLED vs QLED. Very helpful for me as I haven’t replaced a TV in over 10 years.

Preach it bruh !!! Absolutely, frickin’, agree with you.

There is nothing to get our panties in a wad about. Thank you

Well you might think not but now ppl are already receiving warnings that they are sharing their API Keys which is now strictly forbidden.

You shall not sell, rent, lease, transfer, sublicense, share, or provide access to your Account, API keys, access tokens, Service capacity, or paid features.

So where we use to share our API key with Friends and family you can’t. An acquaintance received a warning that they were sharing their API key with 8 others, which he was. They informed him that if this happens again his account will be in violation and suspended.

Under Section 5 Accounts and Account Security.

Well that’s not friendly for a new onwer.

Miki, now does this mean if you have 2 or 3 (or 10+ like Reece :grinning_face:) devices, you will have to have an account for each box?

Well it seems you can’t even get a sensible answer from their help. They say no API sharing, then say they don’t track IP addresses and it’s ok to share with family as long as it doesn’t violate their fair use. It sure seems it’s a royal mess right now. Bought by a bunch of muppets so it seems.

I asked again to clarify sharing with different IP address confusion.

Answer:

Yes, we informed that IPs may be tracked due to some third party services we use like CloudFlare requiring them, but we ourselves do not track nor limit IPs.

Thanks Miki

I didn’t mean to offend anyone when I was questioning the ā€œCake Dayā€ statements. I just wasn’t sure what it meant.

I couldn’t remember seeing it before and definitely can’t remember when my joining anniversary was.

With regards to TB, I’m quite sure that there is a downloading element. I clicked a show recently and I saw it stating ā€œadding web downloadā€ and indicating the length of time it would take to download.

I cancelled it but then It then asked if I wanted to continue to download it in the background. I clicked ā€œNoā€ and then the show started.

Made me think that this was the first time that this show had been requested but I have no evidence to confirm this.

If you used an anonymous email, paid in crypto and use a VPN I would think you should be shielded from any data that was turned over being connected to you but most people myself included (I’ve deleted my account and gone back to PM) used a credit card to pay so my full name address and all of that would have been on their system and associated with my account along with, what they now say is basically a treasure trove of data, which is also retained indefinitely. In this case I wouldn’t think of VPN matters because anybody getting your account info would have your name address and such from your payment. All in one shopping for copyright infringement lawyers I would call it.

Please guys, correct me if I’m wrong about any of that !

You are 100% correct in everything you are saying but I really think you and many others are overreacting here. They have not ā€œturned any data over to anyoneā€ and merely changed their TOS. Until I see an issue where an actual end user gets busted for streaming it’s a big nothing burger for me. (Not downloading streaming) (We talking bout practice! :rofl:) . Nothing wrong with what you are doing you gotta do you but I am choosing to continue to use Torbox which continues to deliver great streams. If the streams stop coming I’ll stop using