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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, Touché) by Osamabobama on Tuesday August 14 2018, @06:53PM
It might be easier to keep a shelf of DVDs near your television. You could sort them in whatever order you want. When you get a DVD that isn't on your shelf already, you can just pop it into your DVD player directly. No Kodi required!
To do the same thing with Kodi, you'd have to rip the DVDs to various files, sort out the worthless extras, name each file in a format that Kodi will recognize, put it in a location that Kodi can find it, and let Kodi pull the metadata from the internet and build an index of all the videos. But then you can move all those DVDs to the basement and never touch them again.
Netflix is even easier, but I will leave that process out...
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