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I installed Kodi on a new iPad (non jailbroken) in Japan and suffered this error as I do on my HTPC installation. I took the iPad with me on a trip to the US and was able to successfully install all the add-ons I wanted while there. So this is issue clearly has nothing to do with how one has Kodi set up.

Thanks for the awesome best media player software that I use on a daily basis and would like to reccomend to my (non-techy) friends.

It is not possible to do that as long as issues like this remain. Finding alternate mirrors or using VPN's is not something for non-techies.

it's kind of incredible that a mirror redirect issue can drag on for so long.
Do the maintainers even know about this issue? Is anyone even looking at it?

Indeed it is.