Let's be sure to delineate Kodi from the illegal content plugins.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Jones" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, May 26, 2017 7:38:31 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] kodi? FYI, kodi has been hit, the subtitles were hijacked to inject malicious voodoo. I use kodi, with exodus for programs I like its illegal amazon banned them, they will literally destroy your inventory facebook banned them google is looking at how to ban them I just got a raspberry pi 3 to make a dedicated kodi box, I bought a half price chineese, one, its a knockoff, probably already infected with something I cant remove, but does it matter when I'm putting an app to do illegal stuff with on it? If somebody says firestick, assume theyre running kodi, and several preloaded addons kodi is a great avenue for distributed computing (bitcoin mining), botnet, general IOT fuckery. kodi is and always should be a zero support ISP issue, enforce your AUP TOS immediately, they either don't know what theyre doing... or they do, and I'm not sure which person is more of a threat to your netblock reputation. The EU will ultimately block your netblock, theyre not messing around with kodi, and they have some sort of magic to be able to specifically identify kodi traffic, my guess is they have an algorithm to identify aggregator traffic On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Paul Stewart < [email protected] > wrote: 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 ... <blockquote> From: Af [ mailto:[email protected] ] On Behalf Of Kurt Fankhauser Sent: Friday, May 26, 2017 2:53 PM To: [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] > wrote: <blockquote> Mark, Here is the link I was talking about http://blog.skystreamx.com/fix-kodi-buffering/ -- Best regards, Mark mailto:[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] 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 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 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 </blockquote> </blockquote>
