Tag: Kodi
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Dish & Sling TV Settles Their Lawsuit Against the Kodi Community TVAddons
Last September Dish Network filed a lawsuit targeting the owners of TVAddons and the third-party Kodi add-on ZemTV for copyright infringement. Today it was announced that Dish and TVAddons have settled the lawsuit and as part of the deal, TVAddons agrees to an expedited DMCA takedown process. This ends the lawsuit against TVAddons but the lawsuit…
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Cord Cutting This Week #39 – Facebook Bans Kodi, T-Mobile TV, & More
Join Cord Cutters News every Saturday as we take a look back at some of the biggest Cord Cutting Stories from the past week. Now, remember these are my opinions on them not an in-depth look at each story. If you would like to learn more about each story check out the links below. This week…
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Facebook Bans the Promotion of Kodi
Earlier this week the news broke that Facebook updated their terms of service to ban the sale of devices with Kodi installed. We are not exactly sure when this happened, but the update seems fairly new. One thing that was missed in the focus on the sale of Kodi devices was the fact that now…
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Facebook Bans The Sale of Kodi Boxes & Jailbroken Streaming Players
Recently there has been a slow move to crack down on the sale of the so-called Kodi Boxes and devices described. Now Facebook is moving to ban anything that comes with Kodi installed or is described as a jailbroken streaming player. Back in May 2017, Facebook moved to ban these devices with a rule that said they…
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Kodi Is Adding DRM to Attract New Streaming Services
For years the team behind Kodi has pushed to attract streaming services to their platform; however, they have always hit roadblocks because publishers first wanted to know that their content would be secure. What is DRM? DRM is Digital Rights Management, the software that prevents people from making illegal copies. According to an interview with…
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Dish’s Lawsuit Against Kodi-Add-On Maker & TVAddons Continues
Last September Dish Network filled a lawsuit targeting the owners of TVAddons and the third-party Kodi add-on ZemTV for copyright infringement. “The ZemTV service is retransmitting these channels over the Internet to end-users that download the ZemTV add-on for the Kodi media player, which is available for download at the websites www.tvaddons.ag and www.tvaddons.org,” Dish’s…
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The Dangers of Buying an Expensive Fully Loaded “Kodi Box”
Recently preloaded so-called “Kodi Boxes” have become popular. These boxes sometimes cost $300 or $400 each and promise free access for life to everything from cable channels to movies still in theaters. According to reports, these boxes have been selling by the hundreds of thousands. You can find them at flea markets, malls, and even…
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Google Adds The Word ‘Kodi’ To Their Piracy Filter
Kodi has increasingly come under target by content owners for allowing 3rd party add-ons that promote piracy. Before this week most of the efforts to stop piracy on Kodi have targeted 3rd party box sellers and 3rd party add-on makers. Now, Google has taken a step directly targeting Kodi. This week Google added the word…
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Hollywood Gets an Early Win Against Sellers of “Kodi Boxes”
Today Hollywood Studios, Amazon, and Netflix have won an early preliminary injunction against the TickBox TV a Kodi-powered streaming device. This box falls into a category many calls “Kodi Boxes” a device fully loaded with 3rd party Kodi-addons to stream TV content for free. Now a United States court has ordered the TickBox TV to stop including…
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Netflix, Amazon & Others Sue the Dragon Box, Which Uses Kodi Add-Ons
In what is becoming an almost weekly event, there is a new lawsuit in the United States targeting a Kodi-powered piracy service. This week it is Dragon Media Inc., the company behind the Dragon Box device. This device is an Android-powered streaming player that uses third-party Kodi add-ons to stream content to subscribers for free…