A lot of the free content comes from pawned servers and computers that are on high speed links …. the paid services are typically dedicated servers rented with flat rate bandwidth … at least with that I’ve figured out ...
> > From: Af [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>] On > Behalf Of Kurt Fankhauser > Sent: Friday, May 26, 2017 2:53 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] kodi? > > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Mark, > > Here is the link I was talking about > > http://blog.skystreamx.com/fix-kodi-buffering/ > <http://blog.skystreamx.com/fix-kodi-buffering/> > > -- > Best regards, > Mark mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > Myakka Technologies, Inc. > www.MyakkaTech.com <http://www.myakkatech.com/> > > Proud Sponsor of the Myakka City Relay For Life > http://www.RelayForLife.org/MyakkaCityFL > <http://www.relayforlife.org/MyakkaCityFL> > > Please Donate at Please Donate at http://www.myakkatech.com/RFL.html > <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] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > Myakka Technologies, Inc. > www.MyakkaTech.com <http://www.myakkatech.com/> > > Proud Sponsor of the Myakka City Relay For Life > http://www.RelayForLife.org/MyakkaCityFL > <http://www.relayforlife.org/MyakkaCityFL> > > Please Donate at Please Donate at http://www.myakkatech.com/RFL.html > <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] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > haven't been able to reach him yet. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jeremy <mailto:[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[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 <mailto:[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]>> > To: [email protected] <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[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 >
