^^ Don't want to upset you, but even in Germany it is (since 2004 or 06 i think)
Just look what happend to kino.to (it's closed so don't worry mods), where you could stream movies.
The GVU is probably trying to file claims against the "customers", who were just watching not uploading.
Legally speaking that is still a grey zone, if buffering is downloading and saving, a judge in germany has to decide that.
But here you download it... another case where you would have more proving ground is ripping music from radios, as far as I know that is legal (till now)
I am not a friend of this super tight copyrights (like in Us where Happy Birthday has a copyright, yes Barrak I am looking at you

). I loved the fact that a Hamburger Judge sentenced a downloader to 5€ a song fine. At least that is realistic not like 500000 for a song.
Either way you can do how you please, but it is probably wiser to not talk about this here if you like your membership to GTP.
For further information about this go visit the forums of Chip.de, they always discuss this (if legal or not)