How long until the Amazon Fire/kodi phenomenon comes crashing down?

Amazons making too much money off of it I doubt they would block it out. I do feel like it's eventually going to get cracked down. Internet providers probably.

Kodi can be put on other systems

I used it with my computers long before my Fire stick

Apparently it can be used on Xbox one now.

I bought my FireTV for both Amazon Prime, Plex, Netflix, and cutting the cord. I did not cut the cord for Kodi.

The popularity of Sling TV, DTVNow, and PSVue is driving sales of the FTV. Kodi is nice, but it's not the sole reason I own a streaming box. If Kodi was disabled tomorrow, it wouldn't change much of what I do.

I do think ISPs will crack down on it. However, as mentioned in another thread, hopefully it's not before they realize the value stream available and begin to offer a legal alternative.

Kodi is just a media server, it's the add-ons and illegal streaming sites in other countries that enable the activities the MPAA wouldn't like.

I think the real threat to Kodi is it let's people leech from these free streaming sites which aren't actually free. When a large enough amount of people start accessing these streams through Kodi more of the streams will start requiring people to login.

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Napster was awesome and now it's gone.

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After Napster there was WinMX. After WinMX was shut down, it was revived underground. There are still torrent sites to download music. And if all else fails, you can use a youtube downloader to capture the music.

Where there's a will, there's a way.

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It will become comical when all of the folks that preach about cutting the cord get their own cord cut

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Not really. Majority of people I know do not use KODI as their primary source of tv.. only a supplement to what they already have.

In the real world outside of the tech board not that many people know about Kodi. I use it, but I don't have a single aqauntince that even knows what Kodi is. It's not a big enough problem to hurt the entertainment industry yet.

I would say that the majority of people that have enough tech savvy to cut the cord also wither use kodi or know about it. Actually, I bet you'd be hard pressed to find anyone that has dropped traditional tv service (cable or satellite) for some sort of cord cutting setup that doesn't know what kodi is.

I'm not saying it's wrong or right, baw. I'm just saying that you can get stuff for free that isn't available free otherwise. And the people that make that stuff are going to put the kibosh to that at some point.