[Harley Ben]

Hello guys, I am reading this thing on several big domains that Kodi is now thinking and have already started in some ways to use DRM in their addons to fight piracy concerns.

The main reason is for its part, Kodi has been fighting back by going after those who sell hardware with pirate Kodi add-ons pre-installed, but the bad reputation is proving hard to shake.

Your opinions?

[Miss_80]

I think you have misunderstood. As far as I understand, the team behind Kodi has only said that they are thinking about supporting DRM so that addons like Netflix might have a bigger change to be developed / supported and people will use those instead of the piracy addons.
That's something different than use DRM in their own addons. You can find several topics about this already here.

[Tinwarble]

Did you not even bother looking on the first page of this thread before posting?

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=312104

[peppe_sr]

no one want to read, and who read often don't understand............ or don't want.
Peppe

[speedwell68]

Hello guys, I am reading this thing on several big domains that Kodi is now thinking and have already started in some ways to use DRM in their addons to fight piracy concerns.

The main reason is for its part, Kodi has been fighting back by going after those who sell hardware with pirate Kodi add-ons pre-installed, but the bad reputation is proving hard to shake.

Your opinions?

Kodi don't do addons.

[da-anda]

read https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-and-drm

[peppe_sr]

read https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-and-drm

i loved that article. it will be enough? people will open their tiny mind? will see.....

[JimmySmith2]

Hi,

basically, I dont care about DRM, so if that option will not have negative impact (size, performance, etc.) to the other part of code, which I really using, its doesnt matter to me and I can say, why not, more options = better product. Of course I am little selfish and want only "my features", because smaller amount of features = better quality of them (and yes, I see quite a few drawbacks when it comes to comparation of Kodi 16 and 17 final stables But I am relativelly tolerant person.

Because the GPL and closed source binary blobs aren't compatible, we can't ship them along Kodi. What we can do is use them to play DRMed content if they are present on your system.
Well, I dont want to any of that code in my system, so until this will not be mandatory (Installer checkbox, or 2 separate downloads: +DRM / Normal), everything is fine by me. I dont see there any unethical thing, who would?? You have to follow GPL, and thats it, no more obligations.

Keep it up, cross fingers, guys

[Tinwarble]

Closing this thread. If you want to discuss DRM use the thread that was previously started here http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=312104