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The Kodi Development Team Wants To Be Legitimate and Bring DRM To the Platform. (torrentfreak.com)
New submitter pecosdave writes: The XBMC/ Kodi development team has taken a lot of heat over the years, mostly due to third-party developers introducing piracy plugins to the platform. In many cases, cheap Android computers are often sold with these plugins pre-installed with the Kodi or XBMC name attached to them -- something that caused Amazon to ban sales of such devices. The Kodi team is not happy about this, and has taken the fight to the sellers. The Kodi team is now trying to work with rights holders to introduce DRM and legitimate plugins to the platform. Is this the first step towards creating a true one-stop do it yourself Linux entertainment system?
Because Kodi has an infinitely better interface from the couch than any of the websites.
Even if a particular website's interface somehow caters to the 'from the couch' usage, an application like Kodi provides an infinitely better interface for changing between providers, when the content is provider based, as well as enforcing some semblence of consistency across the board (if you use amazon prime, netflix, youtube, and crunchyroll, each has their own precious snowflake interface for navigation and playback control).
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
This "discussion" you're having here is completely typical of today's Slashdot. It's sad how far this site has fallen; it isn't even worth it to me to bother commenting in these stories any more.
"Supporting DRM means that the software is no longer open source nor is it for the users but for the corporations."
Firefox now supports DRM, did I miss the announent that it is no longer open source?
Read the article, they don't want to *prevent* these plugins, they just want more legitimate streaming options to be available.
Like many of their users (including me).