The text refers to a current test-case giving three charges, two of selling boxes "adapted for the purpose of enabling or facilitating the circumvention of effe

The text refers to a current test-case giving three charges, two of selling boxes "adapted for the purpose of enabling or facilitating the circumvention of effective technological measures" and one of "advertising a product to circumvent technological measures" [1]. It looks like the law stems from European Directive 2001/29/EC (2001) [2][3]. That directive isn't law in itself, it's an instruction for the EU member states to implement law to deliver that directive (in fact, the UK were initially convicted of failing to implement it by the 2002 deadline). At a guess, the relevant law is the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, Section 24 [4]: Secondary infringement: providing means for making infringing copies. (1)Copyright in a work is infringed by a person who, without the licence of the copyright owner— (a) makes, (b) imports into the United Kingdom, (c) possesses in the course of a business, or (d) sells or lets for hire, or offers or exposes for sale or hire, an article specifically designed or adapted for making copies of that work, knowing or having reason to believe that it is to be used to make infringing copies. [1] http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/kodi-box-court-case-shop-12086720 http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/kodi-box-cou... [2] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A62012CJ0355 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A6... [3] http://www.out-law.com/page-333 http://www.out-law.com/page-333 [4] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/24 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/24