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Facebook Bans Kodi Device Sales
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Re: Facebook Bans Kodi Device Sales
#22"Kodi" is an open source media player. Nothing more or less. The problem comes because people sell boxes preloaded with Kodi and plugins that make one-click piracy possible. Unfortunately the association that people make is now "Kodi = Piracy", which is very wrong.
And BitTorrent is a P2P file sharing program but it doesn't suddenly make the verb 'torrenting' mean anything other than piracy. Kodi is a fantastic piece of software and it's a shame that their brand is being tarnished but c'est la vie when that's the biggest practical use case for your program. There's no sense for anyone other than the XBMC foundation to fight the river on this one. What I would do if I was the pr…
Your recommendations more-or-less came to fruition as the company Plex.
Re: Facebook Bans Kodi Device Sales
#23Funny how they can easily and quietly manage banning Kodi yet stuggle publicly with removing blatent hate speech. Not saying they're equivalent, just that Facebook is perfectly capable of blocking things when they want to despite the free and open perception they try to create for the platform when they don't want to.
Their choice is strictly defined by the profit gain and loss calcs.
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#24Does anybody think these clowns are actually going to be around in a decade? I can understand the business desire to censor political minorities to please the majority, but how does doing enforcement for the content cartels generate any goodwill from their users? It will be interesting to see what happens when their surveillance archives go off to the highest bidder (and are subsequently leaked).
"Content cartels?" You mean copyright owners? I'm not sure the majority is on your side. A lot of folks, including me, generate copyright-protected content and are happy to see anti-piracy measures enforced. Facebook has other issues, to be sure, but I don't have a problem with this.
Enjoy your bubble, while it lasts. It's [not] funny how every new "anti-piracy measure" seems more akin to precrime policing. This unrelenting insistence on invasive control is the heart of why copyright and the Internet cannot coexist.
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#25Very odd. I can't imagine the rationale. "But you could watch pirated movies with it".... uh yeah, same for VLC, can I sell my Macbook on Facebook?
Cory Doctorow had a thing about this, I believe it was called "The coming war on general purpose computing"
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#26All the fuss about Kodi makes me think I should get a box. Is it worth it?
Kodi has one of the most arcane UIs I've used in years. Also, you need to find and set up plugins to get streaming going and this is a complicated process. The streams can be good but not worth all the hassle.
A younger more daring me set up SportsDevil back in the day (like a couple of years ago) so I could watch the Florida Gators play while living across the country. It was SUCH a pain to get a reliable stream. And even then, it was potato quality. With GoogleTV providing all the channels I need, and at a 35 dollar a month price, I can't see any reason why I'd go back to this route.
Re: Facebook Bans Kodi Device Sales
#27Does anybody think these clowns are actually going to be around in a decade? I can understand the business desire to censor political minorities to please the majority, but how does doing enforcement for the content cartels generate any goodwill from their users? It will be interesting to see what happens when their surveillance archives go off to the highest bidder (and are subsequently leaked).
"Content cartels?" You mean copyright owners? I'm not sure the majority is on your side. A lot of folks, including me, generate copyright-protected content and are happy to see anti-piracy measures enforced. Facebook has other issues, to be sure, but I don't have a problem with this.
> happy to see anti-piracy measures enforced.
It's not an anti-piracy measure, they banned a specific brand of software to be sold with the hardware, Heck maybe they should ban Windows PC's because it's even more prevalent with users engaging in piracy and could just as well be sold with some pirated material.
Re: Facebook Bans Kodi Device Sales
#28No "wiretapping devices"?
I wasn't aware that people sold stuff on Facebook. But Facebook apparently has a store now. Never noticed.
Re: Facebook Bans Kodi Device Sales
#29TIL that facebook has a marketplace.
This is brilliant marketing!
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#30Shouldn't the title be FB bans ... sales on Facebook? It's good to remember that FB Internet and FB world.