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TVAddons, one of the leading add-on libraries for the Kodi platform, has disappeared:
TVAddons, the leading library for unofficial Kodi add-ons, has mysteriously disappeared. The site's domain names have become unresponsive after the DNS entries were removed. It's unclear why these drastic actions were taken, but since TVAddons was sued last week, some fear the worst.
Last week we broke the news that third-party Kodi add-on ZemTV and the TVAddons library were being sued in a federal court in Texas. Since then, the 'pirate' Kodi community has been in turmoil. Several popular Kodi addons decided to shut down, and now TVAddons itself appears to be in trouble as well.
TVAddons is one of the largest repositories of Kodi add-ons, many of which allow users to watch pirated content. The site has grown massively in recent years and reported that nearly 40 million unique users connected to the site's servers in March.
[...] Based on the current downtime issues, it's no surprise that people are getting worried. If TVAddons doesn't return, the Kodi-addon community has lost what's arguably its biggest player. The site's extensive library listed 1,500 different add-ons, of which the community-maintained Exodus addon was one of the most popular. Now that the site is no longer available, people may run into issues while updating these.
Previously: Kodi Panic in the UK and Popularity in North America
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday June 15 2017, @10:41PM (5 children)
This is what happen when you centralize resources.
I imagine that many of those add-ons still exist, but almost no one knows how to find them.
I imagine that github is also vulnerable to attack.
-- hendrik
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 15 2017, @10:53PM
If anyone has the original download link it just might still be there even if the main website is unavailable. This happened a long time ago with another app (A game), the website was taken down but the download link still worked.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by KGIII on Friday June 16 2017, @12:49AM (1 child)
I'd actually be a bit surprised if someone didn't have a mirror copy. Maybe browse through the Wayback Machine, find a few unique keywords, and search for those? Google may even still have some of the pages in their cache.
A quick Google led me to here:
Link [addonhq.com]
And, there's some left in the Google cache - I just checked. So, you may be able to use that to dig deeper.
If you're using Chrome, Chromium, Opera, and probably anything similar, just go to:
https://www.tvaddons.ag/ [tvaddons.ag]
Change https:// to cache:// and it'll load the homepage. The links don't work (of course), but you can probably search for some of the more unique text and find what you're looking for.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @06:32AM
This is the true purpose of digital surveillance and control, stop technologies from spreading that undermine XYZ Profitologies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @06:29AM (1 child)
In this new world of content and creativity it is economically preferable to make information easily free. Come up with support and creative content to sell (don't mind the hackers who steal yo shit, they are like mosquitoes) and stop wasting time and money on protections that only harm your users. Make an awesome user experience that people pay for instead of trying to lock shit down like a viper squeezing the lifeblood out of its userbase.
The Kodi Library is an example of users voting out a content delivery model that is an artificial limitation, and then the law cracks down on something it deems as "wrong". Fix the model, don't punish the innovation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @06:45PM
A viper has fangs and poisonous spit.
They don't need to hang on; they strike and wait for the poison to take effect.
"Constrictor" or "serpent" or "snake" would have been apt.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]