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> Over the past few years it’s become clear that many users have been watching pirated content using unofficial and unsupported add-ons that frequently break, and they are installing add-on repositories whose trustworthiness is questionable, leaving themselves open to numerous security exploits

Sounds like Kodi lacks proper plugin sandboxing.

> So while we don’t love this use of Kodi

What use is kodi if not watching pirated media?

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> What use is kodi if not watching pirated media?

Watching non-pirated media, presumably. A lot of people use it as a front-end to their media libraries.

I had always assumed those media libraries were 99% pirated and maybe 1% free or public domain. Where exactly are you getting DRM-free, fully licensed, legitimately purchased content?

DVDs?

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/its-still-illegal...

Not everyone pirates. I can't say for sure, but I believe Kodi has addons for legitimate streaming services. Also, some people take pride in their physical collections.

Depends how pedantic you're being, but ripping DVDs for personal use doesn't count as "piracy" in my book.

Since this involves removing the encryption, it is technically a DMCA violation, but I'd like to see someone bring you to court over it. I'd love for it to go to the Supreme Court and for them to find the DMCA overreached when it effectively eliminated time shifting, media shifting, etc...

> Depends how pedantic you're being, but ripping DVDs for personal use doesn't count as "piracy" in my book.

Exactly this. I got tired of lugging around my gigantic DVD collection and having them scratch or break with time. I've since ripped all of them, and Kodi makes for a fantastic frontend for my HTPC.

It's trivial with music, and I don't think that DMCA violations count as "piracy" as such. The biggest argument ethical argument against piracy is the theft of someone else's work. If I've paid for it, that's a solved problem, as far as I'm concerned.

And anyhow, I don't have any appropriately-licensed media playback software on my machines. If I want to play something back on something besides a dedicated hardware player, then I'm already violating the same sets of anti-circumvention laws.

What use is kodi if not watching pirated media?

I use kodi to watch my own home movies.

While I don't use Kodi, I'll download videos like the ones from WWDC so I can play them back as many times as I want without worrying about the plays counting towards my bandwidth cap. In my case, I've added them to iTunes (and Plex).

If my PS3 didn't have a Twitch app, I'd probably use Plex to stream it.

On my Apple TV, I regularly use the YouTube and Netflix apps, I occasionally use the Vimeo app all legal content. On my PS3 I have CinemaNow for those digital Ultraviolet copies of films. So, there's a lot of legal content. Granted, I'm sure a lot of illegal content is there too.

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