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US and UK movie studios shut down several Kodi add-on developers
Posted on 11/16/17 at 2:03 pm
Posted on 11/16/17 at 2:03 pm
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An anti-piracy alliance supported by many major US and UK movie studios, broadcasters and content providers has dealt a blow to the third-party Kodi add-on scene after it successfully forced a number of popular piracy-linked streaming tools offline. In what appears to be a coordinated crackdown, developers including jsergio123 and The_Alpha, who are responsible for the development and hosting of add-ons like urlresolver, metahandler, Bennu, DeathStreams and Sportie, confirmed that they will no longer maintain their Kodi creations and have immediately shut them down.
The action comes after The_Alpha reportedly received a hand delivered letter to their UK home
...The crackdown suggests the MPA/MPAA-led Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment has a thorough understanding of how owners of so-called "Kodi boxes" are able to stream TV shows and films illegally. While Colossus merely hosts the tools, urlresolver and metahandler did much of the heavy lifting for streamers. Their job was to scrape video hosting sites for relevant streaming links and serve them up for tools like Covenant inside Kodi. Streamers will find it very difficult to find working video streams of their favorite content without them, but they could reappear via a new host in the future.
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Posted on 11/16/17 at 2:43 pm to TigerinATL
Good
Posted on 11/16/17 at 2:47 pm to SG_Geaux
Yea I can't imagine Kodi going down being bad for the OTT TV movement.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 3:25 pm to SG_Geaux
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Good
Not good. I'm generally not pro piracy but the movie industry needs the same kick in the arse that Napster gave the music industry. Kodi is the most likely instrument for that kind of change. I should be able to HD stream a rental movie for the same price I can rent a bluray at RedBox. The problem is that if it were up to the movie industry rentals wouldn't exist at all. LINK /
So without something to force them to bring prices down they aren't going to. It's bullshite that they rent SD streams for $5.
This post was edited on 11/16/17 at 3:27 pm
Posted on 11/16/17 at 3:30 pm to LSU316
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Yea I can't imagine Kodi going down being bad for the OTT TV movement.
If the studios don't offer a better product than what they've been doing, something will always replace whatever gets shut down.
I thought maybe they had learned from the experience of the RIAA, but I guess not. You can't sue or force piracy out of existence. The only way to combat it long term is to offer a better product.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 3:37 pm to TigerinATL
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the movie industry needs the same kick in the arse that Napster gave the music industry.
Good luck with that....when Napster was dominant no one (including recording studios or artists) knew how to handle digitally downloaded media. Hell Napster opened shop in 1999 and it was 5-6 years later before music downloads were even tracked by the industry.
Now the movie studios have a pretty good handle on it....no way the movie studios let Kodi and the addons push them to anything when they know exactly how to stop it this time around.
Now here is the thing. If Kodi gets shut down and people still aren't downloading or renting movies then you might see price shifts.....the consumer is going to move the needle this time around if it moves at all.
ETA
The other thing that might happen is that some other tech might come along that lets people watch movies/tv for free and it will be a technical challenge for a lot of people at first meaning that not enough people will use it for Hollywood to care about. However, eventually it to will go the way of Kodi....the worst thing that ever happened to Kodi (from a leechers perspective) were the last 2-3 major updates......basically when it went to Kodi from XBMC.
This post was edited on 11/16/17 at 3:40 pm
Posted on 11/16/17 at 3:41 pm to Korkstand
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You can't sue or force piracy out of existence.
If Hollywood really wants to force the issue this time I think they have the resources to do it....the question is what do they want to do?
Posted on 11/16/17 at 3:50 pm to LSU316
Posted on 11/16/17 at 3:55 pm to LSU316
This also isn't the movie industry suing their own customers like the music industry did. The flaw with Kodi, which to me is as big of an economic problem as it is a legal problem, is this isn't peer to peer like Napster was or Torrents were. There are a limited number of individuals and companies that make this software and host these files. They can be attacked with an army of lawyers without the headlines reading "Record labels sue sweet grandmother because her 10 year old downloaded a song." Look at this story. These aren't people being attacked by lawyers, they're screen names. jsergio123 and The_Alpha are hardly the sympathetic and relateable figures that made the RIAA look so bad when they were in fact waging war on their actual customers.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 3:59 pm to TigerinATL
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There are a limited number of individuals and companies that make this software and host these files.
There are many thousands of hosts. The Kodi addons most people use are but a small fraction of whats out there.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 4:03 pm to Zappas Stache
But the point is it's a much easier and less sympathetic target to attack than what the RIAA had to go after because of the peer to peer set up of Napster.
This post was edited on 11/16/17 at 4:04 pm
Posted on 11/16/17 at 4:11 pm to CAD703X
Plex is exactly what I was talking about above it is too techy for the average person to get into....but you can bet your bottom dollar that Plex will become what Kodi used to be hell they are already basically doing it (just not as easy so not as many people are into it) with those usenet scrubbers/indexers that have been targeted by Hollywood in the past.
At this point Kodi addons were the low hanging fruit.
At this point Kodi addons were the low hanging fruit.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 4:11 pm to TigerinATL
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This also isn't the movie industry suing their own customers like the music industry did.
Great point.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 5:17 pm to LSU316
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If Hollywood really wants to force the issue this time I think they have the resources to do it
They would have to shut down the internet itself. I am a novice programmer at best, and I could whip up a (very basic but functional) file sharing app in a day or two. Trying to force the issue is just delaying the inevitable: they eventually have to change their model(s) like the music industry did.
I guess their strategy is fine considering they just need to maximize profits in the meantime.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 11:17 pm to Korkstand
Everything I watched tonight worked great.
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