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Quote:I was(am) dissapointment about how the Team dealt with the VidOn case and felt the need to express my feelings onto the discussion board. Regardsless of the fact you wanted to hear it or not, I hoped it could be discussed so that whenever MiniX for instance decide todo the same it would have been picked up a lot sooner.
Both WeTek and MiniX, our only two other hardware sponsors, have agreed to follow all GPL/open source requirements for their products. Not just Kodi, but for all software they might install on their boxes. Failure to do so will result in cancellation of the sponsorship without refund. In other words, we've specifically made sure that another situation like this cannot happen again.
Quote:How is that license unrelated to any agreement with you guys? It is the one and only product the deal is all about.
The law really is crazy like that. The law does not care about one's principals or if we have any other product or reason to exist. At least, as far as we know. We're sure as hell are not going to take a chance when we can just wait ten more days and have the whole thing resolved automatically. We had to change our name over a situation that was far more crazy, so it's not like we're being lazy. The law is a scary.
Quote:In my eyes indeed the traffic ticket does not invalid the contract you have with your bank/mortgage, but if the felony is big enough, the related contract; "your drivers license" for sure get's cancelled.
That's different, at least in the US. Voiding one's drivers license in that case is considered a safety issue, because the traffic violation was either big enough, or enough "points" were accumulated to suggest that the driver wasn't safe, and thus shouldn't be certified to drive. A drivers license is not considered a contract. It is a certification for reasons of safety. The driver is not guaranteed the right to drive by getting a license.
Quote:If so, could you or are you allowed to shared what is in the contract?
I can't seem to find what exactly the terms were for VidOnMe, but it was basically a somewhat casual agreement that said "for one year you get a banner on our site in exchange for $10k". It wasn't like a long letter that had people sign it in front of lawyers or anything like that. VidOnMe could go and rob banks or take over the world, and it technically didn't violate any agreement, because the agreement was never that specific. We've learned our lesson from that and now mention specific requirements related to both GPL/open source requirements and our own trademark policy.
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Ned, thank you for your time and patience.
It seems like, all lessons learned are already implemented.
As non-lawyer I still find that unrelated contract thingy strange, but accept it might be above my head.
Your explainations do sound plausible so will accept and deal with it.
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I know things got a little heated, but I think threads like this can be good. There were concerns and maybe there still are some concerns, but hopefully everyone understands each other a little better now :)
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True...and that signature link shouldn't be permitted on these forums as well. Use other places to promote you're little scam.
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(2015-05-08, 17:51)RockerC Wrote: @j1nx, you should not criticize others if you have similar weaknesses yourself, put your own house in order first. You may not violate the GPL, but please respect trademarks as well. You can promote J1nxOS / J1nxSoft or whatever brand you like as piracy enabling software if you like, just as you don't drag our beloved Kodi/XBMC into those piracy promotions too.
True, and being taken care of recently, hence even before you posted this. I am now both respecting the Trademark as the GPL.
(Please not that my criticism started way before my weaknesses started, but some times you need to drop some smelly shit to be heard.)
(2015-05-08, 18:11)enen92 Wrote: True...and that signature link shouldn't be permitted on these forums as well. Use other places to promote you're little scam.
You are actually right there other than it not being a scam.
That signature was there for a long time, from the time It was a good source of information without any commercial aspects. I removed it. It also kind of made me aware that my nickname also is no longer valid as it needs to be changed to "J1nx-Peter", although I think that is only for sponsors.
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(This post was last modified: 2015-05-08, 19:24 by enen92.)
Thanks for removing it. I don't want to feed the discussion of whether it is a scam or not...for you of course it will always be a legit business. For me, the simple fact you claim the user can watch over 100.000 movies,shows and sports, content you don't own, you have no control of, you have no right to distribute, you have no capacity to keep being served, you have no control on the rate the content is served, you have no way of protecting that content from being removed, you have no way of keeping the content on your addon if someone moves legally against you, you probably depend on others to keep the simple process of having an addon working....makes it a scam.
You should probably change the description to: " Probably watch 100.000 movies, shows and sports until the developer of the free piracy addon has enough patience to keep changing the code and to listen to your illiterate users, if the shitty piracy source is still online and if it is not buffering as shit, if you can find a usable source on the list of 3000 sources for the same movie (please spare at least 1 hour before your movie session for this process) and if the owners of the content don't force me to close my it-is-not-a-scam service. And if you, dear user, got here...congratulations what you're doing is totally ilegal. But that doesn't really matter to me I already have your money. In case of problems, go complain at kodi.tv or moan the addon developer"
No more to say.
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(2015-05-08, 19:23)Lunatixz Wrote: https://twitter.com/HDHomeRun_US/status/...8144737280
http://blog.qnap.com/qnap_kodi/
This tweet speaks for itself...
Two Kodi supporters, linking "Kodi" directly with Super repo and illegal content...
I'm so confused... are we against piracy or for it... Do we look the other way when it benefits us? because the "Kodi" name sure gets "Officially" linked to illegal content far too often
I read the page, but read nowhere that kodi is providing the piracy.
Quote:4. When you select “Video > Add-ons > Get More…” You will see lots of default add-on channels for you to choose to install.
However, there are a lot more unofficial but very interesting channels which were contributed by communities out there.
Let’s walk through few examples about how to do it.
Don' see why this is different from using Firefox to watch porn.
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No no, I am not saying QNAP is not promoting piracy. I mean, it is not kodi that is providing it. It is only mentioned as being the tool to play the content.
Like telling how to install Firefox and add some dodgy extension to it.
