'Kodi Box" Consultation Launched by UK Intellectual Property Office

[Jai Dee]

 

Following complaints from rightsholders and broadcasters, the UK's Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is considering how the law can be tightened to tackle the so-called Kodi epidemic. Interested parties are invited to participate in a consultation to assess how copyright, fraud, and other legislation can target both device sellers and end users.

 

As BitTorrent usage continues year after year, a new piracy opportunity has been gathering momentum in more recent times. Known on the street as ‘Kodi Boxes’ after the legal software they use as a base, these devices enable consumers to access every type of media available, for a very small outlay.

 

While in the past a full-blown PC would have been used to consume movies, TV shows, music and live events via illicit sites, augmented Kodi setups can achieve the same on cheap set-top Android hardware, even phones and tablets. This barrier to entry is an all-time low in piracy circles and of serious concern to rightsholders.

 

These concerns are perhaps most visible in the UK, where police and anti-piracy groups have been tackling people who sell this kind of hardware for infringing uses. There have been some arrests and cases are pending, but there appears to be an underlying nervousness that current legislation simply isn’t up to the job. That’s where the government has now stepped in.

 

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[Allstars]

If the media providers weren't so greedy there wouldn't be a use for the Kodi third party addons.

 

It all start with the sports performers, then the sports clubs and next the broadcasters.

 

Each of them want to get richer every year, and they succeed in this pretty well.

 

100 Million Euro transfer fee for a football player is just ridiculous.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_association_football_transfers

 

Same as $ 2.6 BILLION/year for premier league , or $6 BILLION/year for the national football league

 

http://www.sportscastermagazine.ca/blogs/top-10-highest-sports-leagues-broadcasting-contracts-in-history/

 

Add to that the movie stars and the movie companies. Is it really necessary that a movie grosses $2.77 BILLION to be profitable? I don't think so.

 

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/

 

Of course while they all get richer to and extend that is not justified any more, all those fees have to be passed on to someone, and guess who that is.

 

Yes right, it's the man in the street who pays in the UK up to 100 Gbp/month for his entertainment that come in over the cable.

 

That's the reason why Kodi is such a unrivalled success in the UK, and which spreads to other countries in the world, and right they are.

 

Long live Kodi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[skippy121]

why dont these UK sellers just use a payment processor outside of the EU and US if need be

 

anyone can sell on Aliexpress, they can still post the item from within the UK just make sure all payments are outside of it