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A Dutch-based developer and Kodi addon repository administrator has shut down his operation following threats from anti-piracy outfit BREIN. Due to the XvBMC-NL repo offering addons including Covenant and IPTV Bonanza, BREIN accused its operator of facilitating access to infringing content. He is now required to sign an abstention agreement and pay a settlement of 2,500 euros.
As the battle to prevent unauthorized content getting into the hands of the masses continues, Kodi remains one of the leading platforms for such consumption.
Completely legal as it leaves its official download platform, the Kodi software is easily modified to provide access to pirated movies, TV shows, and live sports. From here on in, usage of such a setup to infringe copyright is illegal in Europe.
With this established, anti-piracy outfit BREIN has been attempting to stem the tide of platforms offering 'pirate' addons in the Netherlands. One of those was XvBMC-NL, a repository which contained addons including the hugely popular Covenant and live TV addon IPTV Bonanza.
According to a report by BREIN, last month the Dutch developer and administrator of XvBMC-NL received an unwelcome visit to his home by bailiffs sent by the anti-piracy group. BREIN hasn't made the precise contents of its message to 'Z' known but it's clear that it views his work as illegal and contrary to copyright law. The developer shut down soon after.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Snotnose on Tuesday August 14 2018, @02:32AM (7 children)
Cut the cable in May, now have Plex + Roku + pi 3B+ + a NAS I bought a few years ago.
I was smart enough (second time around) to buy the 32G SDCard. Now I have room to install Kodi, and thinking I should just Gir-r-done, learn what I can, before $PowersThatBe somehow shut it down.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday August 14 2018, @02:46AM
Libreelec is probably the way to go. They have an image for several processor types, including Raspberry Pi.
Frankly, if you are capable of following onscreen prompts you're going to be able to set it up no problem.
From what I understand some of the streaming plugins stop working after a while, but I actually use it for legal streaming, as the service I watch I pay for.
(At least I think it's legal. Who the hell knows with content owners. I have never read the terms of use and don't intend to).
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Tuesday August 14 2018, @02:53AM (4 children)
This could be a good place to start:
https://troypoint.com/how-to-install-exodus-on-kodi/ [troypoint.com]
That will get you Exodus, likely the most popular and useful addon, and a repo containing other addons.
I'm not using the platform right now so I don't have any up-to-date advice or addon recommendations other than that.
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(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Tuesday August 14 2018, @03:48AM (1 child)
To ask the obvious question, is there somewhere I can compare Kodi to Libreelec to Exodus? Or do I have to install all of them to see what they do?
And how are they better/different from Plex?
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Tuesday August 14 2018, @04:17AM
Kodi is what you install first. Addons like Exodus go on top of Kodi, as shown in the guide I linked. Another way to find some Kodi addons is to use Git Browser [tvaddons.co] from TVaddons.co. You search by GitHub username to locate and install addons. They seem be doing some cheeky legal maneuvering about which ones to get, for example, this "Transparency Report" [tvaddons.co] seems to list the names of the "blacklisted" usernames.
LibreELEC [wikipedia.org] is a fork of OpenELEC [wikipedia.org], which is a cut-down version of Kodi intended for Raspberry Pi. It appears to come with some addons by default. You'll have to ask around if this distribution is necessary because your Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ is a lot more powerful than the original (quadruple the RAM, quadruple the cores, double clock speed, etc.).
Plex [wikipedia.org] seems to be software to allow you to stream videos from your NAS.
Google is your friend?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 14 2018, @06:58AM (1 child)
Exodus was abandoned long ago. As also was its Covenant fork.
The latest fork is called Incursion, but even this has not been updated in 5 months already, with pending pull request you need to apply manually.
Seems that we are going to need a .onion addon repo + anonymous git.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday August 19 2018, @01:21AM
Not exactly. It was abandoned and then some other group took over development:
I installed Kodi, followed the instructions to install Exodus, and started playing a movie successfully, all in under 30 minutes.
The add-on release appears to be from June 2018, and it's working right now.
If other add-ons are better or more frequently updated, I can't speak to that. But it works.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 14 2018, @07:11AM
Same as I thought after my 16GB EVO died after just 18 months. The 32GB EVO should last more since it's barely 25% full and running OpenElec 24/7 almost always idle. And Samsung offers 10 year warranty, right, right? Well it didn't last much more than a year and 15€ down the drain, again. And try to get a RMA warranty... LOL. *sad face*
Now I'm considering using berryboot to install LibreElec in an iscsi target of my NAS and boot from network.