Bundesliga at livetv.ru - is that legal?
If you watch Bundesliga games for free on the Internet, you almost inevitably come across livetv.ru when doing a Google search. We will tell you whether the Russian streaming service is legal despite its serious appearance.
Bundesliga illegal at livetv.ru according to EU judgment
- From a moral point of view, the use of Kinox.to, livetv.ru and similar services has always been illegal. From a legal point of view, it was always a gray area, at least in Germany.
- With a judgment of the European Court of Justice from April 2017 this is now the end. Streaming obviously illegal content is punishable. This includes all content that is actually only accessible for a fee.
- However, the risk of getting caught remains the same. Currently, no warnings about livetv.ru are known. According to estimates, the costs for a warning would amount to around 200 euros.
Football at LiveTv.ru - both legal and illegal?
Note: The LiveTv.ru website now redirects you to LiveTv.sx. However, nothing has changed on the website.
- As with kino.to, the legal situation was far from clear. Anyone who visits such a page does not download video files for later use when watching a stream. A temporary copy of the Bundesliga broadcast is only created unnoticed.
- Legal experts therefore did not agree whether such a fleeting copy is a copy in the copyright sense. To date, no cases are known in which a user of a Bundesliga live stream has been legally prosecuted.
- The website is no longer hosted in Russia but on the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten. A German website would be closed immediately because it violates the national broadcasting rights of the German TV stations. On Sint Maarten, however, the legal situation is less precisely regulated. As with Kinox.to, German authorities can do little.
- As with other video services, this was a large gray area. But it is now clear: the offer is clearly illegal, the use of such services is also legally punishable. Warning letters are not yet known.
- Conclusion: We expressly advise against streaming the livetv.ru site. The recent ruling by the European Court of Justice has confirmed that the offer is illegal. Thus, it should not be long before the first users are warned against payment.
In the next practical tip, we will show you where you legally follow the Bundesliga in live stream.