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Kodi 18 'Leia' 64-Bit For Windows Is Finally Ready To Replace the 32-bit Version (betanews.com)
BrianFagioli shares a report from BetaNews: Earlier this year, we shared with you that a pre-release version of Kodi 18 "Leia" 64-bit for Windows was available. There was a big catch, however -- it was not up to par with its 32-bit brother. And so, many people just stuck with the 32-bit version, because, well... why not? It is finally time to make the jump to the 64-bit variant, however, as according to the Kodi team, it is now identical to the 32-bit version from a feature perspective. "The 64-bit Kodi version for Windows is now feature complete and on the same level as 32-bit. From now on the 32-bit installer will include a warning to ask you to install the 64-bit instead. This upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit version is seamless and you just need to install on top of the old version," says Kodi.
Why the fuck does this link to some hearsay on a third party site? The only link needed is the link to the official announcement on the official Kodi site.
Brian Fagioli really is a fagioli.
I thought people were using Plex now?
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Yeah, theft is both good and bad. It's good because folks get to obtain the things they want for cheap, enabling them to spend their money on other things instead. It's bad because the people who make the things they want probably will stop making them if they aren't making money on them.
Editors: Could you not once during the lame summary have mentioned exactly what Kodi is? It's like slashdot is being written by one guy sitting at his high school lunch table for the other guys sitting at the same table.
How does that work where a TV license is concerned?
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Not everyone uses it to watch pirated content. I use it as a "jukebox" to play my (legally purchased) collection of FLAC audio files from about 2500 CD's I purchased over the years and piped through my home theater audio system. Tucked all on a cheap Intel NUC with all the content stored on an internal M.2 SSD. It works great!
How dare people who spend millions to create content hate it when people don't pay to see it
Yeah, theft is both good and bad.
Please tell me how theft would be good. As we're talking about copyright, the only theft (deprivation of property) here happens when one of the companies GP listed issue fraudulent DMCA/equivalent takedowns, not letting authors share and benefit from their own work, while the company claims the rights with impunity.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Kodi wants to entertain you
Kodi spawned from the love of media. It is an entertainment hub that brings all your digital media together into a beautiful and user friendly package. It is 100% free and open source, very customisable and runs on a wide variety of devices. It is supported by a dedicated team of volunteers and a huge community.
Kodi (formerly known as XBMC) is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub that can be installed on Linux, OSX, Windows, iOS and Android, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls.
It allows users to play and view most videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet. Our forums and Wiki are bursting with knowledge and help for the new user right up to the application developer.
https://kodi.tv/
-Dave
This should explain it
You don't like, but the chicks dig it, so you say, as long as I get a piece to-nite, it's okay, warts and all be damned! That's kodi.
The past version of Kodi has been regularly freezing up and tying up CPU resources so that even pushing CTRL+ALT+Backspace takes forever to respond.
I mean I get that eventually it would be caught up but they are trying to make it sound as if this is some monumental event that has a ton of advantages, while failing to list any. I can't really think of any. It's not like anyone is running a pure 64bit system and kodi is not resource intensive either cpu wise or memory wise. Why should anyone care if its 32 or 64.
Id like to subject the readers to an article that doesn't explain what they are talking about, or even why I should be excited. Well, more than one really, I have thousands of misspelled "articles" such as:
Loapet 2 is out. It's differant from Loapet 1 in that it now has a 2 instead of a 1, and that is just amazing folks. How does slashdot think this will affect them in the future??
turn in your mother fucking nerd card now
The case for theft is weak at best. It presumes hypothetical revenue losses that companies would have garnered if people had bought the product or subscribed to the service. In most cases I've encountered, people have either been so bad off economically or insufficiently interested in the media that the choice was between viewing it for free or not viewing it. The presumption of theft is antithetical in a society where guilt must be proven rather than just presumed. That's why they use terms like 'the alleged theft' on the news where it hasn't been established, rather than assume legal liability for defamation of character. But corporate media are well aware that if they repeat something long enough, it will get stuck in the minds of their audience.
The presumed theft argument also presupposes fair courts and unbiased copyright laws, of which we have neither. U.S. courts are not courts of law, and copyright has been extended to roughly a century - an unreasonable and rather biased state of affairs in a society where information technology means the duration of media relevance decreases substantially rather than increases.
I wonder why you even clicked on the story if you don't care.
Who knows? Who cares?
I have somewhere north of 3000 DVDs, BlueRays, HD-DVDs (remember HD-DVDs?), CDs, videotapes (both VHS and BetaMax (remember BetaMax?), audio cassettes and records stacked up under the house, just in case anybody asks me about this 3.4-odd terabytes of copyrighted content living on my NAS. Your argument is invalid.
Someone can steal physical media from you (ie, a licensed (or not) recording), but can't steal copyright (ie, intangible monopoly rights).
The definition of theft requires two elements:
It's easy to steal a physical medium, but uncommon to steal copyright. For this, you need enough clout to effectively ban the author from distributing the work on his/her own, then distribute it yourself.
A small-time crook may have luck with a fraudulent DMCA/DMCA-like takedown, but it's MAFIAA members who file takedowns in the millions, with no heed to their accuracy (or sometimes with intentional malice). They also don't follow laws they themselves bought when it comes to distributing works.
Thus, nearly all instances of copyright theft is committed by this small group of companies. They also have the gall to label their propaganda organizations with names such as FACT.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Cheap NUC with a thousand dollar M.2 drive = not so cheap.
I just checked the "kodi.tv" website, and for Windows 7, the 32-bit version is the ONLY one that is available!