2019-07-06, 10:19
In my country April's Fool is highly cultivated. And honestly i like almost every try to trick me. Even when the joke is poor, i value the attempt. The person tried to make me laugh. And that in itself feels positive to me.
This years Kodi's April Fools joke didn't make me laugh at all. I even couldn't put just the smallest smile on my face. Instead i was shocked, felt miserable and dissapointed at the same time. Did they lost their mind? Did all the amazing volunteers are working their asses off to throw their mighty project right into the drain?
What happened?
This spring I treated myself on brand new stereo set. We were redecorating our living room and i decided to invest some serious money on the best AVR set with new audio boxes, Oled screen, you name it.
When i started looking for a new set i talked to several audio specialist. In every conversation i explained the outline of my house and my love for Kodi. Most specialist were aware of what Kodi is, but looked at me with a sight like "are we living in the same century?". Those people who's daily job is in the video/audio industry declared Kodi half dead. Asking for a reason they all answered something like: Kodi is associated with illegal content. Authors don't like Kodi. Hardware producers are ignoring it, because they want to connect to
Now the world is moving to a system which is dominated by content based platforms like Netflix, Disney, Tidal, Spotify, Soundcloud and the sooner the later most parts of Google like YouTube. If Kodi can't connect to those services, you'll get stuck.
Kodi is about freedom. About the love we have for creations, movies, pictures, stories, information. Everything that makes life so beautiful. Things we made ourself. Things that are made by artists.
So stop being nonchelant over author's rights. Embrace them and incorporate them into the mighty platform Kodi is. If you manage to succeed, the hardware producers are in line to beg you to let them run Kodi on their systems. Just because you realised the integrators are always winning. We don't want apps for A, B, C, D, E until Z. We want one shiny, customizable portal to all content.
Thank you and keep up the amazing work!
Before you take your sword and sabel me down… above is just my personal opinion, meant to open discussion about Kodi's direction, not to criticize Kodi or anyone involved. I just think that 'jokes' about author rights, access to content is not helping the Kodi project.
This years Kodi's April Fools joke didn't make me laugh at all. I even couldn't put just the smallest smile on my face. Instead i was shocked, felt miserable and dissapointed at the same time. Did they lost their mind? Did all the amazing volunteers are working their asses off to throw their mighty project right into the drain?
What happened?
This spring I treated myself on brand new stereo set. We were redecorating our living room and i decided to invest some serious money on the best AVR set with new audio boxes, Oled screen, you name it.
When i started looking for a new set i talked to several audio specialist. In every conversation i explained the outline of my house and my love for Kodi. Most specialist were aware of what Kodi is, but looked at me with a sight like "are we living in the same century?". Those people who's daily job is in the video/audio industry declared Kodi half dead. Asking for a reason they all answered something like: Kodi is associated with illegal content. Authors don't like Kodi. Hardware producers are ignoring it, because they want to connect to
Now the world is moving to a system which is dominated by content based platforms like Netflix, Disney, Tidal, Spotify, Soundcloud and the sooner the later most parts of Google like YouTube. If Kodi can't connect to those services, you'll get stuck.
Kodi is about freedom. About the love we have for creations, movies, pictures, stories, information. Everything that makes life so beautiful. Things we made ourself. Things that are made by artists.
So stop being nonchelant over author's rights. Embrace them and incorporate them into the mighty platform Kodi is. If you manage to succeed, the hardware producers are in line to beg you to let them run Kodi on their systems. Just because you realised the integrators are always winning. We don't want apps for A, B, C, D, E until Z. We want one shiny, customizable portal to all content.
Thank you and keep up the amazing work!
Before you take your sword and sabel me down… above is just my personal opinion, meant to open discussion about Kodi's direction, not to criticize Kodi or anyone involved. I just think that 'jokes' about author rights, access to content is not helping the Kodi project.
