Call to Arms: Combatting Trademark Infringement
(2016-03-05, 14:36)nooryani84 Wrote: If people want to target bit torrent then they might as well target any and all sources that can store data! FTP, CD/DVD, HDD, etc... Any of these can be used for both legal and illegal purposes, so the argument is irrelevant. I trust that Team Kodi know what they're doing and have thought of most of these, and other, proposed solutions. If it were that simple then we wouldn't be in this situation!

We've spent 4 years towing a very narrow line. Basically, we want to be as open on the forum as possible, while not directly supporting piracy. It's why we have rules like "if it can be used for piracy, but also has other uses, it's ok," and "if it's main purpose is piracy, but it doesn't actually do any downloading itself, then it's ok," and so on. Sometimes, there are apps/addons that stray too far into the gray area and become pretty much exclusively about piracy. Navi-X was an example of this early on. It was, at one time, just a place people put random videos. Then it became a place where people put only hollywood movies. And then we had to shut it down in our forum.

What's funny about people always calling us hypocrites because Xbox Media Center existed is that they clearly have no memory of how Team XBMC acted during those days, which was pretty much exactly the same. On the official sites and forums, only legal stuff was ok. There was no talk of how to compile. No one was allowed to post compiled sources directly on the forum, etc. It was understood back then that compiling was illegal and when something is illegal, you don't talk about it, and you certainly don't shout about it to the moon and make videos with thousands of views.

It's only in the past few years that this tradition of silence has changed. People outside the team have suddenly realized that thumbing their nose at keeping silent meant making money, and now they're mad at us for being mad at them for breaking a tradition that dates back to the creation of XBMP.
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RE: Call to Arms: Combatting Trademark Infringement - by natethomas - 2016-03-05, 21:57
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