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What's the legality of Roku shipping a third-party client? Does the Google/Oracle decision have any impact on that?
by shawnz 6y ago
What's the legality of Roku shipping a third-party client? Does the Google/Oracle decision have any impact on that?
- TingPing 6y agoThat case isn't relevant but its probably against Googles ToS and easily blocked if they care.
- criddell 6y agoIf the client is essentially just a browser, I don't see how it would violate any ToS.
- derekp7 6y agoThey wouldn't be able to without breaking the DRM used on Youtube TV. Or in cases where DRM isn't involved, their client would constantly break until they release a patch every time Youtube changes something.
- shawnz 6y agoThat seems like a significant improvement over no Youtube at all.
- apocalyptic0n3 6y agoNote that this is YouTube TV, not YouTube itself. They are separate services. Google has just muddied the waters repeatedly by moving a bunch of services under the YouTube branding.
- criddell 6y agoThey can do that, but they also want to be paid by Google. So it doesn't help on that front.