Is Using Putlocker Illegal? A Lawyer Explains

The short answer is, yes. Piracy is a growing trend on the internet. You could face severe penalties for violating laws.

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Moreover, due to the ban of putlocker, the authorities can trace and press charges against you for using the site. That stands true for some popular putlocker alternative sites, too. Outside of these cases, accessing unlicensed streamed content is generally legal. So, as long as you just stream, it's legal.

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Put locker doesn't actually host movies, they are just a forum to find movies online. You can use putlocker to watch movies legally if you are in canada but not in the eu for instance. The eu used to state that accessing illegal content temporary was not breaking the law but this change in 2017 when the court ruled that streaming a movie is essentially as bad as downloading it. There is an exemption in eu copyright for temporary copies, intended precisely to facilitate browsing the internet. However, its application is to the use being lawful.

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