When I reached out to practicing attorney Toby M.J.
If the developers and distributors of Terrarium are "beyond the reach of jurisdiction of US courts" - and Bambauer notes that the WHOIS information of the site suggests the app is made outside of the states - the apps will continue to operate, despite their murky legality. Section 512(d)" and that its only play to get said protection would be to claim that it's a service provider.Īnd it's not just the makers of Terrarium that could be in trouble, as Bamauer notes "Terrarium users are undoubtedly violating copyright by streaming or downloading copyrighted material." If that’s the case, then Terrarium can be on the hook for secondary copyright liability. Bambauer said Terrarium's "developers and distributors will probably be sued by content owners" if the service becomes popular enough.īambauer followed up by noting that the app "probably violates copyright law," for assisting "users to find and stream copyrighted material." He elaborated, noting that - unlike Google and BitTorrent trackers - apps don't "qualify for the safe harbors of Title II of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. Professor Derek Bambauer, a Professor of Law at the University of Arizona teaches Internet law and intellectual property, had plenty to say when I asked him about Terrarium.
Is Terranium TV legal? (Hint: it doesn't look good) Oh, and there were Polish subtitles on-screen, and the video itself featured a message advertising the 1xbet website.
And when I clicked on one of those options, the app suggested I download YesPlayer to actually watch the stream.Īnd when I actually opened the stream? You guessed it, I got a blurry, out-of-focus view from inside a movie theater, watching the iconic Star Wars crawl move up. It's as if a man in a trenchcoat walked up to me, opened his jacket and showed me a stack of DVDs with poorly printed covers.
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