Android media set-top boxes are found everywhere - in Sim Lim Square and in electronics chains like Harvey Norman and Best Denki - and they sell for as little as $200 apiece. The media boxes stream content from different online sources including Netflix, Hulu and YouTube, and project it onto a regular TV screen.
Questions over the legality of these boxes have surfaced over the past two years when two retailers - Synnex Trading and An-Nahl - were dragged to court in January last year for allegedly infringing copyright by helping people access pirated content via the Android boxes they sell.
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