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Kodi is a media center for playing whatever media you already have, even if it is your own rips or your own purchased downloads. Kodi was already a popular appl

Kodi is a media center for playing whatever media you already have, even if it is your own rips or your own purchased downloads. Kodi was already a popular application for years before someone decided to sell prepackaged devices running Kodi that included a third-party pirate-streaming plugin.

kyriakos 6y ago
Even if you don't use any plugins for streaming pirated content a lot of people use it as a player for downloaded torrents or streaming from seedboxes.
dogma1138 6y ago
I’ve used kodi since it was XBMC, “backups” was always its main focus, the amount of content available as a DRM free download is extremely limited and if we are realistic the amount of people that do their own rips form movies they own can probably fit in a movie theatre. Kodi never went full on popcorn time but it’s pretty useless for anything but a large and quite likely pirated media collection.
- forty 6y ago
  You can have a DVD reader plugged to it and I also have a DVB-T adapter to watch TV. There are also emulators to play games nowadays (how legal that is most likely depends on the country you are in).
  - dogma1138 6y ago
    And how many people do you think use it as a DVB-T/DVD player? I don’t understand really why is it so controversial to admit that Kodi’s sole existence is dependent on piracy as it provides a good UX to a large library of media files. Same goes for Plex, everyone knows what it’s used for. Sure there can be legitimate uses for this software but without the piracy angle we know that it wouldn’t be maintained or even really exist. Kodi started as a homebrew media player for the Xbox to play additional media formats and files from sources other than the main DVD drive.
    - forty 6y ago
      No idea, but at least I do use it for legal content. I believe it even works with some steaming DRM nowadays (even though I don't use that). No idea what others are doing, but I don't see why people would use kodi to see pirated content more than other video player/media center. A pirated video file should be readable everywhere.

kyriakos 6y ago

Even if you don't use any plugins for streaming pirated content a lot of people use it as a player for downloaded torrents or streaming from seedboxes.

dogma1138 6y ago

I’ve used kodi since it was XBMC, “backups” was always its main focus, the amount of content available as a DRM free download is extremely limited and if we are realistic the amount of people that do their own rips form movies they own can probably fit in a movie theatre. Kodi never went full on popcorn time but it’s pretty useless for anything but a large and quite likely pirated media collection.

forty 6y ago
You can have a DVD reader plugged to it and I also have a DVB-T adapter to watch TV. There are also emulators to play games nowadays (how legal that is most likely depends on the country you are in).
- dogma1138 6y ago
  And how many people do you think use it as a DVB-T/DVD player? I don’t understand really why is it so controversial to admit that Kodi’s sole existence is dependent on piracy as it provides a good UX to a large library of media files. Same goes for Plex, everyone knows what it’s used for. Sure there can be legitimate uses for this software but without the piracy angle we know that it wouldn’t be maintained or even really exist. Kodi started as a homebrew media player for the Xbox to play additional media formats and files from sources other than the main DVD drive.
  - forty 6y ago
    No idea, but at least I do use it for legal content. I believe it even works with some steaming DRM nowadays (even though I don't use that). No idea what others are doing, but I don't see why people would use kodi to see pirated content more than other video player/media center. A pirated video file should be readable everywhere.