That pisses me off as well, that's why I nowadays keep my only kodi participation to these forums and nowhere else. Also I try to report any posts against the forum rules as soon as I notice them so they can be quickly binned. Just sick and tired of the same subjects every single day, everywhere. It got to a ridiculous point in which I refrain from commenting anything related to kodi in social networks to avoid my own "friends" to moan about kodi issues or similar stuff. As if magically I was the carrier of all world's free tv, movies, sports or whatever they think kodi is.
It seems that more recently things have "moved along" and since making addons still gives a bit of work, the big new hype is the pseudo "iptv". More and more custom iptv services everywhere being sold to illiterate people at derisive prices. As if it was not enough, today not only the box full of crap is that expensive but they also end up paying for a shitty "iptv" service that in most cases are just public lists or web tv streams. Even if they are not, I doubt the seller has any decent upload rate to assure a consistent service. These iptv services seem to be quite popular in countries like switzerland where there are some laws that forbid people from having satellite dishes. Rough calculations on the price these guys charge for their service leads to values far above what I pay my tv provider for their service. It seems rather ilogical that there are people that pay for it but if the market exists, costumers are also likely to exist.
I actually sort of had an idea that could help dealing with all that crap. Recently when renting a room for a family member. I was contacted by a foreign person interested in renting the room. He/she provided copies of his/her id card and provided a lot of other aditional personal information. However there was something strange in that email. Either some words used, some parts of his/her story that didn't make much sense. A quick google search for this person's email address led to loads of scam databases reporting similar activities by the same person. Sites such as scamdex.com or other quite similar I hadn't even heard about.
I though something similar might be made for kodi or other open-source projects. Either a custom scam reporting website or using another that might already exist. While one can easily argue that it is some kind of free publicity to those services/sellers I doubt anyone will be encouraged to buy anything from someone that has his email/website/phone number next to this:
I believe people still have a bit of common sense and like me and my example above will do a quick google search if something doesn't sound right. Like for example: "watch every movie ever made".
Cheers,
enen
