It seems it would be legal to use it, if you only use legal websites, and illegal if you use it to pirate movies. It seems that the question about whether it is illegal to sell or buy the device is complicated, as it seems it has legitimate uses (they show NHL on demand, a pay service, and Youtube, for example), so it seems like it would involve deciding whether there are enough legitimate uses, what duty/ability they have to prevent copyright infringement, whether they encourage copyright infringement, etc, etc. I’ve just tried to go to Project Free TV, and I’m redirected to this website this website, informing me that it is blocked (in the UK at least) due to a high court order, probably for copyright infringement.
It seems from the marketing to be aimed at the gullible, who think it’s a magical box that gives them free tv and movies, but it might just be aimed at people who are fine with piracy, but I think the more technically-minded would buy something that actually listed the technical specs. It seems that it might be legal to sell or buy, but the only way to get virtually unlimited movies and tv shows they are implying (100,000 movies and TV shows), is to pay for them (which you could do anyway on a Roku, or your computer) or pirate them, or they could have just pulled the figure out of their asses. GoTV seems to be an African TV network, which seems an odd choice. Moviestorm seems to be a piracy site, as they show a copy of Expendables 3, which says DVDRip (see about 4:24 on the video), and they advertise movies that are currently in theatres, which is another red flag). Looking at their Getting started video ( ), they mention USTVnow, GoTV, Glow Movies, and MovieStorm.
It appears that the device uses XBMC (now Kodi), and you need a suitably powerful system to do video encoding/decoding to use it. I wonder if the cost is because it needs a large hard drive to download movies, whereas similar devices just stream content, but that’s speculation. It also suggests they don’t do anything that a similar box/stick (e.g Roku) can’t do, or you can’t do on your computer. This seems to be saying that they are not breaking the law by selling the device (which may be true), as they are just linking to it, not that it’s legal for the user to use the sites they link to. We do not promote illegal conduct of any kind. We do not host any content nor do we know who does.
Our Android TV box is 100% legal! All our software does is provide links to content that is already posted on the internet.
The FAQ has the following under the heading “Is it Legal”