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Facebook Bans the Sale of All Kodi Boxes (torrentfreak.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Facebook previously banned the sale of fully-loaded pirate streaming devices, as did Amazon and eBay, but the social network appears to have expanded this to all Kodi-powered hardware now. This is made clear in the prohibited content section of the company's commerce policies, as shown below. Facebook states that users are no longer allowed to promote "the sale or use of streaming devices with KODI installed." In addition, jailbroken or loaded devices are also banned from the platform. The issue was first noticed by CordCuttersNews which notes that sellers who violate the policy may have their Facebook accounts banned. Interestingly, Facebook will still permit the sale of "add-on equipment for KODI devices," including keyboards and remotes. However, selling any devices with the software itself is no longer allowed.
Rename the software to KODJ, and sale of hardware with it installed is allowed by Facebook, then? How often do we need to rename the software? (I work for a medical device manufacturer. Our project was just renamed. As near as I can tell, the only reason for renaming the project is that the FCC can only audit us on the project we are currently working on, not previous projects, so we periodically rename projects to minimize audit exposure. Nothing has changed in the project to warrant a name change!)
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
I guess I missed something while I was never on Facebook...
Facebook is a store now?
Facebook has a merchant platform?
Facebook is banning promotion of devices with Kodi pre-installed by users/company presences? (Or whatever they call them...)
Did Trump just make Zuckerberg Secretary of Commerce?
So, I guess it's a trend to ban pre-installation of open-source software, now?
Sure, today is Kodi. Tomorrow it's cURL...