2019-01-26, 19:29
I don't recall there ever being them in the official repo, but I don't go back as far as you do so it may be before my time.
There are some in other forks official repos (e.g. LibreElec) which may be what you're thinking of?
VPNs are certainly not piracy, although from what we see here the majority of their actual usage that we get questions on are in that area (either geolock by-passing or to try and hide usage of other addons which are piracy related). Hence why threads asking about it end up here in off-topic rather than in the bin, except of course where the usage is clearly against the piracy policy (wiki) or banned addons (wiki) are involved.
It can be a bit of a fine line I admit, which is why the VPN Policy (wiki) was prepared to try and make it clearer and more defined for everyone (including team members at times).
With the new DRM support upcoming in Leia there certainly is more opportunity for "official" addons if the providers want to get on board, or also I guess for unofficial ones using encoded streams. But of course that needs them to meet us half-way (at least for the first case) which sadly seems to be the opposite of how providers are going in the increasingly fragmented and fractured market where they want absolute control over everything limited to their own custom player apps or sites.
There are some in other forks official repos (e.g. LibreElec) which may be what you're thinking of?
VPNs are certainly not piracy, although from what we see here the majority of their actual usage that we get questions on are in that area (either geolock by-passing or to try and hide usage of other addons which are piracy related). Hence why threads asking about it end up here in off-topic rather than in the bin, except of course where the usage is clearly against the piracy policy (wiki) or banned addons (wiki) are involved.
It can be a bit of a fine line I admit, which is why the VPN Policy (wiki) was prepared to try and make it clearer and more defined for everyone (including team members at times).
With the new DRM support upcoming in Leia there certainly is more opportunity for "official" addons if the providers want to get on board, or also I guess for unofficial ones using encoded streams. But of course that needs them to meet us half-way (at least for the first case) which sadly seems to be the opposite of how providers are going in the increasingly fragmented and fractured market where they want absolute control over everything limited to their own custom player apps or sites.
