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Unlike victims of gun crimes, the victims of copyright violation have the money and lobbying power to effect change.
No, unlike gun owners and manufacturers, software developers have no effective lobbying organization and get treated liked 2nd class citizens. No one fears angering software developers before an election.
How is it that software makers are culpable when their product us used to commit a crime but not gun manufactures? Is it that copyright violation is such a "heinous" crime that special rules apply?
One has a Constitutional amendment. The other doesn't. Also, gun owners are better organized than content consumers or technologists.
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Looks fine to me: https://github.com/plexinc/plex-home-theater-public
My mistake, I was getting it confused with their use of FFMPEG: https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/141186/possible-gpl-violat... https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/141186/possible-gpl-violat...
I feel so bad for the Kodi project. They've done amazing work over the years and their reputation is being destroyed so quickly by people taking their open source work, adding a bunch of piracy addons, and selling a set top box. I have no idea what they can do to combat this. I don't see how they can distance themselves from this any more than they have.
Require addons and kodi itself not to hardcode the Kodi name/brand (even in logos/addons titles, etc.), if an unauthorized addon is installed kodi replaces all the kodi brand with a generic name, the harder to google the better, something like "Media Player" sounds generic enough.
But I'm sure these box sellers would just "create" custom skins/addons and put the kodi brand there just to spite the developers.
How is it that software makers are culpable when their product us used to commit a crime but not gun manufactures? Is it that copyright violation is such a "heinous" crime that special rules apply?
Unlike victims of gun crimes, the victims of copyright violation have the money and lobbying power to effect change.
How is it that software makers are culpable when their product us used to commit a crime but not gun manufactures? Is it that copyright violation is such a "heinous" crime that special rules apply?
Whether one agrees or not, Google is within their rights to remove Kodi from their autocomplete product. Whether one agrees or not, Dick's Sporting Goods is within their rights to remove partial/all (can't remember what they did exactly, honestly) gun sales. So they're not really all that different. Kodi isn't considered culpable for people using it in a bad way here, just Google is removing it from autocomplete in a…
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Unlike victims of gun crimes, the victims of copyright violation have the money and lobbying power to effect change.
No, unlike gun owners and manufacturers, software developers have no effective lobbying organization and get treated liked 2nd class citizens. No one fears angering software developers before an election.
They just haven't been clever enough to organize their own customers, or some other mass front, politically the way the gun industry has.
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Equally sad as the existence of the terrible Kodi piracy boxes is that the legitimate set top box/"smart TV" industry is completely ignoring it. I'm not aware of any TV manufacturer building Kodi into their product, instead they invent their own junk, which is usually much worse. Does anyone know why the consumer electronics industry is ignoring Kodi?
Actually there was Boxee. Which made a fork of XBMC which was used in the Boxee Box made by D-Link. The fact that know one even remember it besides me seems to point out why not a lot of others have followed.
How is it that software makers are culpable when their product us used to commit a crime but not gun manufactures? Is it that copyright violation is such a "heinous" crime that special rules apply?