I’ve been told to start using a VPN whilst I’m in KODI. This being when your streaming, temporary files are stored to your computer and your SP can access it if you don’t have a VPN.
Can I close my VPN as soon as I quit KODI or how long do i have to wait before I close.
No one can access the files on your computer. Where did you hear that?
Your SP can’t view your files, only your traffic (anything on the line, not your comp). As such, you can turn it off whenever you aren’t actively streaming content.
I feel like using a VPN with Kodi is probably overkill to be honest. They’re going after the people uploading and hosting stuff not people just streaming.
Would this be relevant to firestick?
There is no information delay that you need to be concerned about when closing your VPN service. Just close the Kodi app first and then log out of your VPN. You also do not need to log out of the VPN ever unless you are doing so because it is slowing down your internet speeds.
If you are in the US and are not using p2p then a VPN is not needed.
You don’t need to turn it off if the streaming is fine!
Streaming is legal in the US. It is settled law. Flava Works v Gunter:
“viewing material online is not engaging in copyright infringement, any more than a person “sneaking into a movie theater to watch a movie without buying a ticket” is infringing copyright by seeing the movie: - That is a bad thing to do (in either case) but it is not copyright infringement”.
As others have pointed out, some plugins use p2p/torrents that is illegal because you’re sharing materiel as well as downloading it. There aren’t that many kodi addons that use p2p. Popcorn time, Acestreams, Sportsdevil are probably the biggest three. Just do a quick search before you add an unknown plugin to ensure its not p2p.
Exodus and Stream All the Sources have pretty much everything and are perfectly legal and safe to use without VPN.
after 5 minutes maybe?
Thanks for your help!
I just read on quite a few places that when your streaming temporary files are made and then go but I wasn’t sure how long they stay for. I didn’t want to leave the VPN if those temporary files were still there.
Hope that makes sense
Unless your stream torrents with Pulsar/Acestream or Quasar.
As it’s android it probably has a toggle somewhere that states it collects app usage data, you would probably need to find this and turn it off. I don’t know if this still works but there were instructions in 2015 for turning off app data usage, here.
As for a VPN, you would need to use a router with VPN capability with Amazon Fire TVs as there is no way to run a VPN with the current ones that I know of.
cheers.
I don’t always have the VPN on because 1. some things are slower. and 2.other things don’t work while my VPN is active like I cant receive or make phone calls through my mac for some reason.
Can you say this with certainty? I feel like we are only one court case away from this not being true and someone has to be the first to be made an example out of.
Those temporary files are the parts of the video that you are watching. Streaming works by splitting the video into lots of little segments which you download as you watch. It’s perfectly safe!
You can now!
http://troypoint.com/install-vpn-on-fire-tv-stick/
You can most certainly run a VPN on all Fire TV devices (old and new). It is the firesticks that you will run into an issue with, you will need the current version of the firestick and not the older one if you want to have it run a VPN on its own.
Yeah, that makes complete sense. Oftentimes there are settings on the VPN software that will allow you to bypass the VPN (for example allowing you to make your phone calls on the mac), however, the time required to get it all setup usually is not worth it. Like you I turn off my VPN when I am not concerned about my browsing privacy being invaded.