>>I've never quite got Kodi, is it illegal or isn't it?
Go back in time;
Your VCR was always legal. And playing a pirate tape on it did not make the VCR illegal. Playing the pirate tape was illegal though. Selling or otherwise passing that pirated tape to someone else for playing on their VCR was illegal, even though their VCR was perfectly legal.
Still with me?
The argument against Kodi, and similar, is that much as it may be a VCR player it is designed to be perfectly suited to playing pirated material and thus should be illegal itself.
The defence for Kodi is that it can be used to play totally legal and freely available material and thus should not be restricted.
Consequently if one sells a Kodi unit configured to play pirated downloads, then the machine is illegal. IF one does not sell it pre-configured, then it is not.
I think the media owners bring it upon themselves. They make pirating attractive, even inevitable. And their biggest problem is that they have always maximised their revenue by using geographic licensing and release strategies.
Without that geographic approach then things like Prime & Netflix would make the entire problem go away.
Last edited by: No FM2R on Mon 21 Sep 20 at 18:28
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