Roku clamps down on pirate channels
The company has already removed some channels, and a few pirate outfits have preemptively announced plans to drop Roku support on the assumption that their channels will disappear. The crackdown isn’t coming out of the blue. Roku wants to offer public stock in 2017, and that means cleaning house so investors don’t see its media players as piracy havens. Also, Mexico recently banned sales of Roku…