[dan_jericho]

Anyone with a ounce of coding knowledge will be able to bypass this 'security check' and its unlikely to stop these a-holes stealing and profiting from your skin. I completely agree with your stance in terms of defeating this pirates and 'Kodi Box' makers, but there is going to be a lot of honest developers and legitimate addons that are going to get caught up in this. Who decides what goes on the blacklist? Who plays the role of King of the Repos? Will this be a repo dictatorship? Ive already seen a few comments from other forum members (Plex, Netflix) and as I mentioned in my last post (which was moved to garbage by an over-zealous admin although I was careful not to mention any banned repos), not every “banned repo” contains addons that can be classified as illegal. There is a dangerous precedent being set here the only outcome will be that novice users will migrate to a different skin.  I don’t think taking a large spade to the problem is going to solve anything.  

The issue only ever lies with addons. No one ever mentions the torrenting, newsgroups, software CAMs, all of which have helper type addons in the official kodi and Libreelec repos. Yes, these all have legitimate uses, but its far more likely that they are not used for that purpose. Heck you have ‘Add to couch potato’ built into extended information script on your own skin. Can you offer me a legitimate use for this option, other than piracy?

P.S Im not getting at you personally (or trying to sound harsh), as I said, I fully understand your decision on why you have done this and I appreciate all the hard work and effort you have put into the skin (its fantastic), but there must be another way to tackle this problem. It shouldn't be left up to a skinner to shoulder this burden.