[wrxtasy]

sorry kodi, you'll win the battle but you won't win the war. There will be an exodus to FMC (Freedom Media Center) Dev's are packing there bags.

Please, please, please, let's make this happen!!

Seems that FMC may be the inevitable conclusion....

Whilst I appreciate this plan of Piracy action and this recent stance by the Team Kodi, its the same as putting your finger into a leaking Dyke to stem the inevitable flood of water. You are going to get drowned sooner rather than later.

Firmer action needs to be taken and tougher decisions made, a flow of ideas here....maybe Android only....

• Serious consideration given to removing Python from Kodi completely ala the MrMC fork of Kodi to prevent these addon creators ever getting started.
  
• Once this is done rebrand Kodi once again and start afresh.
  
• Possibly embed some sort of call to Kodi servers in the code (and official addons as well) that remotely disables Kodi until detected illegal addons are removed.
  
• Provide a list of Official endorsed Kodi Hardware platforms, that do not come packaged with Piracy addons or associate themselves with Piracy in any way.
  
• No Allowed Kodi Sponsors unless the previous condition is met.
  
• A Sub-Forum of known, repeated Piracy listings, with names of YouTube, Craiglist, EBay, Amazon etc offending Sellers for a community based listing effort.

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As some of you know I've been pretty Vocal on the subject of Trademark Infringements and GPL Violations as well.
I have become completely dismayed that even a simple request to have known GPL Violators (and hardware sellers), to be posted on the Kodi.tv front page, has not even been considered.
I wrote a passionate PMail to natethomas a while back now about VidOn, the worst GPL Violator and have not even had the courtesy of a reply.

Team Kodi, you need to protect your Developers first and Foremost as the Number One Priority. The heart and soul of the project. You are not doing enough. When someone like VidOn blatantly Violates your XBMC/Kodi GPL you do nothing at all about it. Some developers I talk to are actually furious nothing has been done.
You have a Known GPL Violators list already. Why the Hell don't you use it and make it prominent ! ?

All the rest is window dressing, and band aid solutions unless you keep developers together. If I had to start out as a Kodi developer at this exact point in time I would not do so and would actually encourage others to do the same.

Dismayed. Yes a LOT !

W.