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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: 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?
My ducks are not in a row. I don't know where some of them are, and I'm pretty sure one of them is a turkey.
(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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