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The Kodi Development Team Wants To Be Legitimate and Bring DRM To the Platform. (torrentfreak.com)

Posted by msmash on from the not-giving-up dept.

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?

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  1. DIY? No, more like DOA by HumanWiki · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's a reason many people used this platform (right or wrong) and they're removing that reason. Now, they'll just be yet another media player that's locked in with DRM in a giant pool of pre-existing systems.

    1. Re:DIY? No, more like DOA by HumanWiki · · Score: 4, Insightful

      There's a reason many people used this platform (right or wrong) and they're removing that reason. Now, they'll just be yet another media player that's locked in with DRM in a giant pool of pre-existing systems.

      perhaps it could be considered that actually using a product for its intended purpose would be why people choose it, adding new features to a product does not necessarily diminish the value of the existing features

      or maybe you're just a stupid troll

      You clearly don't understand the product or why it's so popular. The problem isn't if they add DRM for plugins and modules for properly licensing content.. It's that it USUALLY will mean they will have to enact it across the board or lock our certain other plugins as part of the licensing model. That's where they're going to lose out and the point of my comment.

    2. Re: DIY? No, more like DOA by ArmoredDragon · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Or maybe the whole project was born from mplayer and a pirated Xbox SDK. Oh, and they justified not releasing the GPLed source code since they only released it through piracy sites.

      Now, tell me what its original purpose was again?

    3. Re:DIY? No, more like DOA by ScienceofSpock · · Score: 4, Insightful

      LOL, "what an idiot you are" is not an argument

  2. The Beauty of Open Source by ausekilis · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When these guys start doing something people hate, someone will fork and make it good again. Just look at Apache->MariaDB or OpenOffice->LibreOffice.

  3. Re:Make DRM work with my CableCard.... by silas_moeckel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Stop supporting people that refuse to let you do what you could legally do back in the days of VCR's.

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  4. Please respect us by ArhcAngel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This seems to happen whenever an OSS project goes mainstream and someone decides they want to be "respected" by the evil jerks who created the situation that led to the OSS project being created in the first place. If they create addons with DRM they will have to be binary only and separate from KODI itself since KODI is GPL2. That said KODI even points you to forks should you dislike their new direction

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  5. Plex wont... by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Plex has overtaken them hard and they are desperately trying to catch up with the popularity of the rogue fork from years ago.

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