Who is paying for all this bandwidth that the *servers* are providing for "ill-legitimate" content?
On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Mark - Myakka Technologies <[email protected] > wrote: > Mark, > > Here is the link I was talking about > > http://blog.skystreamx.com/fix-kodi-buffering/ > > > > *-- Best regards, Mark *mailto:[email protected] > <[email protected]> > > > *Myakka Technologies, Inc. *www.MyakkaTech.com > > > *Proud Sponsor of the Myakka City Relay For Life * > http://www.RelayForLife.org/MyakkaCityFL > > *Please Donate at Please Donate at *http://www.myakkatech.com/RFL.html > > > > > *------ Thursday, May 25, 2017, 10:52:39 PM, you wrote: * > > Kurt, > > I read somewhere that kodi needs about 10-15meg connection to work > correctly. Not sure if that was for live tv or everything. Think I have > the article bookmarked at the office. I'll check in the morning and post > it if I find it. > > > > *-- Best regards, Mark *mailto:[email protected] > <[email protected]> > > > *Myakka Technologies, Inc. *www.MyakkaTech.com > > > *Proud Sponsor of the Myakka City Relay For Life * > http://www.RelayForLife.org/MyakkaCityFL > > *Please Donate at Please Donate at *http://www.myakkatech.com/RFL.html > > > > > *------ Thursday, May 25, 2017, 12:50:45 PM, you wrote: * > > I am getting more and more calls every week from clients saying that their > "streaming isn't working." Upon investigating each one of these cases the > customer always has purchased a "jailbroken" firestick loaded with KODI and > they are expecting to watch all kinds of movies for free. From what I can > tell this is very un-reliable compared to just paying for Netflix. > Sometimes the streams work and sometimes they don't. I basically have been > telling customers that what their doing is no different than the old > satellite days where people put the hacked cards into their set top boxes > and get all the satellite channels for free. But those cards were always > getting "zapped" and you were constantly having to get new cards and > re-program cards so your spending so much time dealing with the > "un-reliable' TV watching experience that it would have just been cheaper > to pay for the service legally in the first place. My solution for these > customers has been to just tell them to pay $10 for Netflix and be done > with it. > > On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 11:02 AM, CBB - Jay Fuller < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > haven't been able to reach him yet. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From: *Jeremy <[email protected]> > *To: *[email protected] > *Sent:* Thursday, May 25, 2017 9:26 AM > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] kodi? > > Why don't you ask him? > > On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 8:21 AM, CBB - Jay Fuller < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > out of the 250 or so "warnings" received through this morning, about 80% > appear to be tv shows and random episodes of such tv shows. that is why i > was thinking kodi. perhaps he browsed around just to see what would work > and what wouldn't. i've never played with kodi but if this guy has this > volume of entertainment on his hard drive i would be surprised and would > say he has no life. plus he has been a customer for a while - he isn't > anyone new.... :) > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From: *Tim Reichhart <[email protected]> > *To: *[email protected] > *Sent:* Thursday, May 25, 2017 9:18 AM > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] kodi? > > with kodi you can download/add on for like utorrent to download movies or > you can also download exodus. > > > ------------------------------ > -----Original Message----- > From: "Joe Novak" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 05/25/17 10:14 AM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] kodi? > > To be honest, unless he is using some odd P2P addon for Kodi it's > unlikely. Most of the addons comb the net for the videos and aggregate the > links for you to watch on Kodi - which means your not sharing it back. Some > kind of popcorn time variant which is built on bittorrent is more likely, > but I don't know if any of those still exist. > > > Joe > > > On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 9:09 AM, CBB - Jay Fuller < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > we have a customer who literally has gotten no fewer than 150 complaints > from both fox and ip-echelon ? (sp) in the last 24 hours. > either he has downloaded half the internet or perhaps he has one of these > new illegal kodi boxes. > > some of you with more experience than us in dealing with this - is it > likely he has a kodi box? The alerts seem almost in real time > but then again, they also seem to be coming after we turned his service > off.... > > I know there is a safe harbor provision out there where we could basically > put on our website any copyright violations must be delivered > to us in writing and we could basically ignore these.....but we haven't > gotten that many in the past. > > thoughts? > > thanks > > >
