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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 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.
Source: Hollywood strikes back against illegal streaming Kodi add-ons
Additional info at TorrentFreak and TVAddons.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 19 2017, @01:18PM (1 child)
What sites should you use to configure Kodi in November 2017?
(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday November 20 2017, @01:53AM
I don't think this is about Kodi itself, its about the dozen or so providers of little boxes that are nothing but a Single board computer ( often not eve up to raspberry Pi quality) running Kodi.
Things like http://www.streamsmart.tv/ [streamsmart.tv] just one of the "fully loaded Kodi boxes" that you can buy for exorbitant prices, but usually less than you would pay for basic cable in a year.
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