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Perfect - thanks for your feedback.
That means. We were blocked - but "by accident" - and additionally all applications with "ko" in name additionally.
Btw. just for brainstorming: Which popular apps do you have in mind that have "ko" in their PACKAGE_ID ? It would be evil to think, that they block entire "ko" "by accident" - but mainly hitting only kodi - as the rest no one installs ... but as we don't think evil ... that did not happen, right? :-)
So then: Dear Sony-Folks. Don't assume something is a kernel object, just cause it has "ko" somewhere in its PACKAGE_ID, imagine you had tried to load such a module (especially one with kodi's size) ...
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Think again about why blocking *ko* instead of *kodi* would be much smarter to do.
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(This post was last modified: 2019-01-10, 18:35 by jjd-uk.)
Using KO to block installs instead of Kodi gives them a ready made excuse if you want to be cynical about this, so if found out they can use the "oh sorry about that it was an accident" line, obviously this risks them blocking other apps but perhaps they checked Play store and found nothing that someone would be liely to run on a TV.
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That is very far-fetched, but if one were to assume "evil intentions", yes, a possible theory.
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We are talking about Sony. PS3 + Linux, Root-Kit on Audio CDs, another Root-Kit to remove the other Root-Kit ... but we all hope they learned from the past.
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"music and game industry" :-) like Sony Music and such?
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Can someone please try to install my 3 apps above on an AF9, which have nothing to do with Kodi.
If that doesn't work, I believe Sony the alleged error, otherwise, it was intentional...