This showed up in my Twitter feed today:
MPA: Pluto TV .m3u Playlists Facilitate Piracy on a Massive Scale
This is absolutely ridiculous. Pluto provides these streams directly through their public API. The only thing the people creating the m3u files are doing is taking the data provided by that API and mapping it to text files that software like Channels can parse as a playlist. That’s it.
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Pluto is stating that users are not using their official APP which Channels is not.
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The complaint is from the Motion Picture Association, not Pluto.
If Pluto had an issue with the way we’re using their streams, then they wouldn’t have created a public API. The whole point of a public API is to allow third party applications to consume their data. The API does not require any authentication, you can literally pull it up in your browser.
Right, so it sounds like this is going to end up with the MPA forcing Pluto to shut down their public API, or Pluto not being able to stream indexable, unencrypted, copyrighted content. At least not freely to viewers, without money going back to the rights holders. I doubt this is what the studios had in mind when they let Pluto in the door.
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This will likely take a while, as I imagine that the API is being used by Pluto apps on some older devices. We’ll see.
Hence, my concern.
If you are still watching the ads, is it piracy?
I'd guess being able to record it is the bee in their bonnet.
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