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Old 06-30-2014, 01:05 AM
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Net-only here. No cell service (keeping the old phone on for when I'm out of town), no decent tv service (and I watch all my stuff, limited as it is, online anyway), and a landline for work contact. Nice and simple, and leaves way more money for the tank! :P
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Old 06-30-2014, 12:36 PM
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I didn't have any TV all through university. Afterwards when I moved in with my now fiancée we got it... I've been pushing to cancel it ever since. The ever rising bill that those leeches at Telus send us each month makes me cringe. I really want to get rid of the landline as well as we both have cell phones.
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Old 06-30-2014, 01:09 PM
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XBMC on my ouya! Super cheap way to have xbmc on a tv other htan hdmi through lappy
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Old 06-30-2014, 02:32 PM
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Problem with XBMC is the legality of it. Just like torrent's you could be sued for downloading copyrighted material. They are starting to bring lawsuits against people downloading this material.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/04...perts-worried/
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Old 06-30-2014, 03:41 PM
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Problem with XBMC is the legality of it. Just like torrent's you could be sued for downloading copyrighted material. They are starting to bring lawsuits against people downloading this material.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/04...perts-worried/
Some REALLY disturbing privacy issues identified in that article.
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Problem with XBMC is the legality of it. Just like torrent's you could be sued for downloading copyrighted material. They are starting to bring lawsuits against people downloading this material.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/04...perts-worried/

XBMC is perfectly legal to have and use.

Saying XBMC in it self is illegal is a bit like saying your car is illegal because you can speed.

They are bring lawsuits against the downloaders, not XBMC.
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Old 07-03-2014, 08:27 PM
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XBMC is perfectly legal to have and use.

Saying XBMC in it self is illegal is a bit like saying your car is illegal because you can speed.

They are bring lawsuits against the downloaders, not XBMC.
That is why I further clarified my comment about downloading copyrighted materials which is basically how you get the movies and tv shows you want to watch without paying for cable.
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Old 07-04-2014, 12:14 AM
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gave up tv years ago and been watching the odd movies on Appletv and have a couple boxes running XBMC.XBMC n computer and laptops as well...
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Old 06-30-2014, 02:32 PM
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We canceled the dish about two years ago and our land lines two months ago. Mostly because of rising cost and strange charges . Plus there was not much to watch on the dish anyway. We save well over 200$ a month prob close too 300$ we use net flicks and I am going to look into use ing Xbmc
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