But Durian HD now can't watch anymore...

Time Warner can make report to local authority to catch the culprit lah.

i see, then what if we watch streaming tv channel in pc is hbo ? they will direct come to home catch us ? so fast can detect ? famous iptv software in pc is tvants and sopcast. if like that then gov every day not free lo, every day go people house catch user la. how they manage to do ? how gov prevent this happen ? punish till death ? or punish to jail whole life just for watch streaming tv channel for a hbo ?

Gov will surely punish till hang on rope. They can trace your IP. Watch out for the warning letter.

Cos they want to control everything, of cos IPTV is illegal lor.
Moreover if it is legal then you wont be seeing we only have Astro while not having other big satelite tv service provider liow. xD

Lol, so harsh.

Confirmed, cos who is going to settle with all those legality? What if the contents are reallllly sensitive? (Having YouTube alone is sufficient to make many countries headache, let alone many internet video programs from China or other coutries.)
Which authority or who will be responsible?
If the issue is really severe, Malaysia ISP is most likely to activate filtering IP policy. Then Malaysia will be like in China unable to connect to Facebook, Youtube and many other international website without the use of VPN services.

Relax bro, Malaysia belum take action yet. But I am not surprise if they are going to take action one day. The latest debate between the new stupid internet policy is always apply for the purpose of controling Malaysia news and media to not reach any further audience to keep things under their HANDs to control.

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Added on October 15, 2012, 4:41 pmBtw, I heard Maxis Fiber Optic service in the TnC does not allow torrent, if torrent then they really will sent you warning letter geh.

But if you pandai pandai, then still got methods to avoid geh.

This post has been edited by kwcheah: Oct 15 2012, 04:41 PM

maxis send u a warning letter so what ? maxis take action to catch u ? i don't think so.


in the end pandai pandai still a good way.

so any conclusion?

So here is the conclusion:

IPTV can watch. However the content itself might be illegally taken from other paid service.

Police will go after the source of the IPTV provider, shut down server that stream the show, and in the app that you use to watch IPTV will not work anymore.

that mean we watch iptv is not illegal, but the host is illegal ?

Here is the thing let me say this

I watch Hulu and BBC but I am subscribing to a VPN Service which fools Hulu and BBC iPlayer thinking that I am from US/UK

Is it legal ? - Well I am watching content from Hulu , they have gotten rights to publish their content. Its their problem and not mine. However some may argue that is illegal because I am watching these content out of United States/UK . It falls in the grey area anyway.

Let me put it this way

Assume that there are two of us . You are the content provider , in other words you steal content from other services (say CNN , but you did not get the rights , instead you put a camera in front of your TV which is connected to ASTRO and stream it across internet"). Now suppose I happen to find your stream and I continue to watching it

As far as the legal side is concern , they are not interested in coming after you (aka the people who watch these streams). They would go after the content provider aka the person who hosts it

ohh.. then i put the iptv media player on restaurant, mamak, office and retail shop is not a problem. the only thing is gov will go catch the streaming server or host. what if the host in china, taiwan and hongkong ? gov will take place go there catch them ?

Here is my question , what are your plans and whos the "IPTV provider". Are you talking about like PPS or one of those "get astro channels" IPTV ?

This post has been edited by prasys: Oct 16 2012, 11:49 PM

i was mention IPTV media player receiver, which is a receiver. not a software to be install in pc. is a stand alone or set-top-box receiver.

UniFi uses IPTV decoder as well and its legal , simple as that

If your IPTV decoder is something like Durian HD , its not. If you are using it for commercial purposes , you are just seeking for trouble.

Usually licensing authority won't go so far to sue an individual for watching illegal tv programs.

But if you are business and used it for commercial purpose, then it is a different case we are talking about. Authority probably will sue you for abusing the licensing.

Lol, personal use probably won't be sue cos they don't want to waste so much time and money while they can't afford to pay the fine too.

Commercial, they have money for business then sue maybe can get compensate.

But if in really bad times, to sue individual is still possible as they do have the right in doing it.

ohh.. then put in apartment, condo, Bangalo, and kampung is the best la

if u wan use use secretly, dun use it in public/commercial purpose

IPTV isn't illegal, but unlicensed broadcasting is. Unifi also got IPTV. Astro also got.

Lol
FYI, my friend from Sarawak told me that in his kampung, in some house behind the yard you can found big satellite disc which used to receive more than hundreds of TV programs from other countries such as from China, Taiwan, HongKong, Thailand and others.