Fully loaded android boxes illegal in Canada

What do they consider "fully loaded"? Can it come with Kodi if none of the plugins are installed?

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It will slow things a bit but in the end cord cutting will go on.

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I don't think it slows cord cutting at all. Does Kodi make RedBox and NetFlix DVD by mail irrelevant? Yes, but it's still way too slow, klunky and with too much variance in quality to be used as a replacement for TV. People are used to changing the channel and something new is playing a split second later. With Kodi you have to search what you want to watch and then spend 30+ seconds pulling up sources, then you have to choose a source and hope it's a good source with the quality you want and doesn't have Asian subtitles on it.

I'm not saying Kodi is bad, I think it will be to movie DVD rental/sales what Napster was to music. But Kodi has been way oversold on this board as THE solution to cord cutting. It's one tool cord cutters should have in their belt and it shouldn't be the main tool unless you're a poor college student living on Ramen. This board is not even close to representative of the average person.

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I am just waiting for all of the studios, etc to sue amazon and force them to stop allowing kodi installs or even worse access to the users that are using it. I have no doubt that amazon is tracking this info.

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The problem with taking the litigious route is it doesn't work. I mean, it might help their revenues a little bit in the short term, but you can't stop the people from getting what they want. If Amazon tries to block people from running Kodi, they will find a workaround. Or people can just use any of the numerous cheap Android boxes. The studios can't stop everyone in the world from hosting content online, and DRM will never, ever be successful in stopping piracy.

The only long-term solution the studios have is to give the people what they want (imagine that). And that is easy access to what they want to watch, when they want to watch it, at reasonable prices. People will pay. Look at Netflix, Amazon, and all the low-priced streaming services. Unfortunately, they are still hooked on the old model that lets them sell the same product to the same people multiple times. $15 at the theater, $5 digital rental, $20 blu ray (then another $20 for the next format), then they get money from HBO/etc., streaming services, and cable/network channels.

But people are tired of it, and they just don't have the money. I'm not saying that people are forced to pirate, but we live in a world where it's just too easy and it's going to happen. So the studios need to get smart about capitalizing on the tech rather than fighting it.

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The only long-term solution the studios have is to give the people what they want (imagine that).

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Yeah, like I said, I think Kodi is going to be to Movies what Napster was for Music. Once enough people started using Napster the music industry cut a deal with Apple and the rest is history.

Amazon seems to have taken over the streaming box market partly because of Kodi. They would seem like the natural choice for the movie industry to cut a deal with. "Reasonably priced" to me is really in line with RedBox/NetFlixDVD. Give us 6-8 HD movie streams for $10 per month, not the current $5 for 1 SD rental, and I think you'd find a lot of people stop using Kodi, and more importantly a lot of people never start.

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Not sure what website you were sent to but flawless-hosting.net is where I go to pay for the service.

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flawless-hosting.net is not a live website. www.flawlessiptv.net, which is the link on the facebook page for Flawless IPTV, redirects to www.nitroiptv.com I don't know if Nitro bought them or what, but they appear to be one in the same.

However, my basic point was paying $20 per month for curation of illegal streams rather than paying $20 per month for something like SlingTV is crazy. If you're actually going to pay money anyway you should pay money for content creation, not easy leeching. The system doesn't work if everyone's a leech.

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my basic point was paying $20 per month for curation of illegal streams rather than paying $20 per month for something like SlingTV is crazy.

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Yea to me the $35/mth that I pay for DTVNow is worth it (until it goes up at which point I'll research PSVue in the Lafayette area again or go back to Sling...who knows when that will be). Also I've always had Hulu and Netflix so I don't really see much benefit in cancelling those.

I basically use Kodi for movies and a stop gap on shows that we can't catch when they are on and they aren't on hulu. I realize that Kodi could probably completely replace Netflix and Hulu....but I'm interested in what innovations those companies make next...especially Hulu's upcoming OTT service.

how lazy are people that they want pirated shite set up for them to buy on ebay or amazon?

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