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    TV addons

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    Another week, another blow for those that use the Kodi media center app and applications for piracy.

    A report from TorrentFreak is now suggesting that TVAddons, a giant repository for Kodi add-ons – many of which are used to gain access to pirated material – has gone dark.

    Kodi: the good, the bad and the illegal
    With over 40 million unique visitors a month, it will be a huge victory for those looking to protect copyrighted materials. Visit the site and you'll be presented with an unresponsive page, with its DNS entries removed.

    Disappearing act

    It's not yet clear if TVAddons has shutdown, has temporarily gone dark, or if it's been pulled offline by its domain registrar. The downtime comes just a week after news broke that TVAddons was being pursued by a federal court in Texas.

    The news follows a similarly bleak turn of events for ZemTV and Phoenix add-ons, which have shut down in the face of a legal battle against US satellite broadcaster Dish Network.

    Kodi is an open-source media center which facilitates streaming from web video sources. While its development team do not condone piracy, the open nature of the software has allowed the platform to be hijacked by pirates, offering copyrighted films and TV shows free of charge for those that install the associated add-ons.

    The software will soon be getting a major update. The Kodi 18 Leia release being teased promises Android lean-back features and even version to take advantage of 64-bit systems.

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    Re: TV addons

    Yes, the exponential growth of Kodi and it's many Coders is starting to hit the overpriced cable/satellite companies such that they are now having to take action . Blatant public selling of fully loaded boxes has hit the Satellite companies in the Sports area as well as other media even Grannies & Grandas can now load add-ons !
    Many ISP's are blocking sites, developers/coders are being hunted down with threats of legal action - the original XBMC , now Kodi has been around for over a decade - it will be interesting to see how Kodi & the Coders adopt to the challenge !
    Hope it deosn't come too soon , 2 episodes of Fargo Series 3 to see yet !

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    Re: TV addons

    Good news they are clamping down on people viewing for free would you class this as fraud or theft

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