The Piracy Box Sellers Are Killing Kodi

[JohnnyJazz]

The problem is this: There have been a wave of sellers who decided to make a quick buck modifying Kodi, installing broken piracy add-ons, advertising that Kodi let’s you watch free movies and TV, and then vanishing when the user buys the box and finds out that the add-on they were sold on was a crummy, constantly breaking mess. These sellers are dragging users into the world of piracy without their knowledge and at the same time convincing new users that Kodi is a buggy mess, because they never differentiate Kodi from 3rd party add-ons. Every day a new user shows up on the Kodi forum, totally unaware that the free movies they’re watching have been pirated and surprised to discover that Kodi itself isn’t providing those movies.

Over the past few years it’s become clear that many users have been watching pirated content using unofficial and unsupported add-ons that frequently break, and they are installing add-on repositories whose trustworthiness is questionable, leaving themselves open to numerous security exploits. Lately there’s even been a move to install “builds,” which intentionally break Kodi and, much like viruses, are almost impossible to uninstall, but have the benefit of adding LOTS of untrustworthy repos full of add-ons that don’t work.

https://kodi.tv/the-piracy-box-sellers-and-youtube-promoters-are-killing-kodi/

[JohnnyJazz]

Team Kodi maintains an officially neutral stance on what users do with their own software. Kodi is open source software, and as long as the GPL is followed, you are welcome to do with it as you like. So while we don’t love this use of Kodi, as long as you know what illegal and potentially dangerous things you are getting yourself into and accept the fact that the Team will not be providing you with any support, then you are welcome to do what you like.

You have been warned !

PS : I don't work with or represent KODI. I just feel that the promotion of product ("builds") that will ultimately damage this great software is not ok. After that, as they said, it's up to you.

[MaeJoMTB]

Nobody cares,

Every encrypted broadcast/media system ever used has suffered the same abuse.

VHS, CDs, DVDs, HDVDs, Blue Ray, Encrypted Satellite, streaming video.

Someone is always trying to profit from piracy.

The rest of us are all trying to get it for free.

[Chicog]

Nobody is "modifying Kodi". They are simply using it to play pirated streams instead of legal ones.

Lately there’s even been a move to install “builds,” which intentionally break Kodi and, much like viruses, are almost impossible to uninstall, but have the benefit of adding LOTS of untrustworthy repos full of add-ons that don’t work.

That makes so little sense I can barely stop laughing.

A move by whom?