The Roku Channel Terms of Use

Roku · agreement dated October 17, 2020 · Official agreement

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Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

Users may not enable unauthorized access or defeat DRM, security or access controls

The list of things a user "may not" do closes The Roku Channel use section with two prohibitions: engaging in or facilitating any unauthorized access to or use of The Roku Channel, and disabling, bypassing, circumventing or interfering with any digital rights management mechanism, security mechanism or access control measures.

Details
Who
The user of The Roku Channel
What it does
May not engage in or facilitate unauthorized access, or disable, bypass, circumvent or interfere with DRM, security or access controls
What it covers
Unauthorized access to The Roku Channel; digital rights management, security and access control mechanisms

Supporting quotations

You may not:
engage in or facilitate any unauthorized access to or use of The Roku Channel; or
disable, bypass, circumvent, or interfere with any digital rights management mechanism, security mechanism or access control measures.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The first prohibition reaches facilitating another party's unauthorized access or use, not only the user's own.
  • The second prohibition covers disabling, bypassing, circumventing or interfering with DRM, security mechanisms or access control measures, whatever the user's purpose.
Also annotated in the same passage (3)

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

Roku may restrict or suspend access to protect accounts, licensing and partners

Roku reserves the right to restrict or remove access to The Roku Channel or to certain content when it has reason to believe the user's Roku account has been hacked, stolen or compromised, or that the content is not properly authorized or licensed in the user's country or violates applicable law. It may also suspend access when it believes that is necessary to protect Roku or its content providers and partners from what it believes to be fraudulent, improper or illegal activity.

Details
Who
Roku
What it does
Restrict, remove or suspend access to The Roku Channel or certain content
Condition
Reason to believe the account was hacked, stolen or compromised, or content is unauthorized, unlicensed in that country or unlawful
Condition
Roku believes suspension is necessary to protect it or its providers and partners from believed fraudulent, improper or illegal activity

Supporting quotations

We reserve the right to restrict (or remove) access to The Roku Channel (or to certain content) if we have reason to believe that your Roku account has been hacked, stolen, or compromised, or that the content is not properly authorized or licensed in your country or violates applicable law.
We may also suspend your access to The Roku Channel if we believe it is necessary to protect Roku or our content providers and partners from what we believe to be fraudulent, improper, or illegal activity.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The account-based ground applies only where Roku "ha[ s] reason to believe" the account was hacked, stolen or compromised.
  • The content-based ground covers content not properly authorized or licensed in the user's country, or that violates applicable law.
  • The protective ground depends on Roku's own belief that suspension is necessary and on its own belief about the activity.
  • Restricting or removing access is described as covering The Roku Channel or certain content, while suspension is described as suspending access.

Not stated here

  • The terms state no notice, duration or reinstatement process for a restriction, removal or suspension.
Also annotated in the same passage (1)