https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-gro...ns-170531/
"The websites of several Israeli Kodi repositories and add-ons have been shut down this week, following legal action from a local anti-piracy group. The operators of the platforms reportedly agreed to pay a settlement of thousands of shekels and face a hefty fine if they relaunch their services."
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toineb - great avatar for the post
It is the snigger that does it for me
(2017-06-07, 13:23)Karellen Wrote: [ -> ]Popular Kodi addons shutdown
https://torrentfreak.com/popular-kodi-ad...it-170607/
No Engadget, why do you too now suck as seperating legal addon communities from illegal/piracy addons communities?! I normally like Engadget for their serious journalism in the technology area, but this re-report of that TF article have had very few fact checking done, if any.
https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/07/kodi...k-lawsuit/
They have now choosen to use the misleading clickbait title: "
A piracy lawsuit is tearing Kodi's add-on community apart".
And in the article the make it sound as if piracy addons developers have same FOSS philosofies as Kodi's core developers:
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Many Kodi developers consider themselves hobbyists and administer add-ons in their free time for no financial reward."
In addition the writter of this article seem to think that Kodi is a company:
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Kodi -- the company behind the popular media center -- often finds itself entangled in legal action, even though it actively discourages the promotion of piracy add-ons on its platform. It provides the open source software but doesn't dictate which add-ons are allowed on the platform."
Well, fact is that Team-Kodi does dictate which add-ons are allowed in the official addon repo, just as Google dictate which apps are allowed in their Google Play app store for Android, but both platforms allow side-loading, still no one is hanging out Google of sideloaded illegal/piracy apps capabinity in Android.
