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Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System

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Re: Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System

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Post by jakear »

denkmoon wrote: post #56
throwhauser wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why?

The Walt Disney Company. One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

I don’t see much of an issue with Disney getting paid for the new content they produce. If I want to watch the new Bad Batch episodes, I can either pay for a Disney+ subscription and increase the official view count, thereby increasing the project’s revenue and likelihood the folks working on it have their contracts renewed, or I can convince myself Disney is some evil corporation consisting of people who don’t deserve to be compensated for their efforts and pirate it. Back when I was a kid with no assets to my name piracy made some sense. However, now that I have the means to support creators, I do.

Re: Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System

#63

Post by BeetleB »

rglullis wrote: post #33
throwhauser wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why?

Piracy is the only way to disarm this immoral system where all the "legal" alternatives are basic assaults on our consumer rights that leaves us with no real good ethical choice,

Your comment makes sense only to someone who already agrees with you and is similarly informed/misinformed. It does not provide any insight to those not sharing the same knowledge as you.

Right off the bat, anyone can contest:

- "only"

- "immoral"

- "assaults"

- "ethical"

Your comment provides no context or support for any of these.

Re: Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System

#64

Post by rglullis »

BeetleB wrote: post #63
rglullis wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Piracy is the only way to disarm this immoral system where all the "legal" alternatives are basic assaults on our consumer rights that leaves us with no real good ethical choice,

Your comment makes sense only to someone who already agrees with you and is similarly informed/misinformed. It does not provide any insight to those not sharing the same knowledge as you. Right off the bat, anyone can contest: - "only" - "immoral" - "assaults" - "ethical" Your comment provides no context or support for any of these.

If you want an essay, we can agree to a rate and I can write it after you send me the check.

Re: Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System

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Post by thejosh »

bitexploder wrote: post #59

We have a Linux server with Samba. Kodi connects to it beautifully. Even my kids can use it fine. Combine with VM that runs a VPN and deluge for optimal fun. Add a few simple IPTables rules to prevent traffic from leaking except over your VPN to calm down annoying Torrent monitors that your ISP might use. Been working for years. We vastly prefer to pay for content, but we ancient DVD rips and such that are not amenab…

Old: Usenet Then: Netflix/other streaming Now: Too many streaming services, back to old :-)

Re: Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System

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Post by eximius »

Gah, I'm finally giving OSMC another try this year (tuned downstream distro of Kodi).

Honestly, the biggest problem is I probably need to organize my NFS so the dang indexing works. That was always the biggest problem I had in the past (and buffering/encoding stuttering, but that was from WiFi/weak RaspberryPi processing).

Re: Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System

#68

Post by BeetleB »

thesausageking wrote: post #19

How does this compare to Plex?

Kind of sad none of the responses really answered the question in detail.

What I would like to know:

1. What features does Plex have that Kodi doesn't?

2. What features does Kodi have that Plex doesn't?

I get that at this point it is somewhat an apples/oranges comparison, but still: As a Plex/Kodi user, what am I not getting that the other provides?

I know Kodi has a lot of plugins, but I'd like to hear of specific examples of plugins and how people use them in a way that you can't with Plex.

Edit: One somewhat useful Reddit comment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/mciv5l/kodi_vs_...

Re: Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System

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Post by BeetleB »

rglullis wrote: post #64
BeetleB wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comment makes sense only to someone who already agrees with you and is similarly informed/misinformed. It does not provide any insight to those not sharing the same knowledge as you. Right off the bat, anyone can contest: - "only" - "immoral" - "assaults" - "ethical" Your comment provides no context or support for any of these.

If you want an essay, we can agree to a rate and I can write it after you send me the check.

If you want people to "disarm an immoral system", you're not going to get far if you want to be paid to convince them.

"One should not use X!"

"Why?"

"Pay me and I'll explain!"

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