2016-12-29, 18:19
Now that everyone has had their fun, I believe this question also requires a more serious answer.
I think you might have seen news that several shops (selling boxes configured to use piracy streams) might be shutting down, now that court cases against these shop owners are passing their first judgements, and they are facing jailtime.
None of these shops have anything to do with Kodi - actually They are killing our brand and damaging our reputation. In addition, their use of our name is against our trademark policy (wiki).
In addition this usages of our brand makes it harder for us to actually work with content providers to get legal content and official add-ons in our repositories.
Personally I am more than happy to see this happening as these shops are constantly associating our name with piracy usage, going as far as to call their devices "Kodi box", which to me is similar to selling a laptop with Firefox preconfigured to visit lots of porn sites with stolen accounts and calling it a "firefox laptop", or advertising with "Firefox gives you free access to paid porn sites."
So to summarise: We are not shutting down, but hopefully some of the people misusing our name are.
I think you might have seen news that several shops (selling boxes configured to use piracy streams) might be shutting down, now that court cases against these shop owners are passing their first judgements, and they are facing jailtime.
None of these shops have anything to do with Kodi - actually They are killing our brand and damaging our reputation. In addition, their use of our name is against our trademark policy (wiki).
In addition this usages of our brand makes it harder for us to actually work with content providers to get legal content and official add-ons in our repositories.
Personally I am more than happy to see this happening as these shops are constantly associating our name with piracy usage, going as far as to call their devices "Kodi box", which to me is similar to selling a laptop with Firefox preconfigured to visit lots of porn sites with stolen accounts and calling it a "firefox laptop", or advertising with "Firefox gives you free access to paid porn sites."
So to summarise: We are not shutting down, but hopefully some of the people misusing our name are.