Good luck. Even this list (which is supposed to be technical) is acting like a 70 year old man hearing that devil's rock and roll for the first time.
- Josh On May 26, 2017 7:40 PM, "Mike Hammett" <af...@ics-il.net> wrote: > Let's be sure to delineate Kodi from the illegal content plugins. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > > > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Steve Jones" <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> > *To: *af@afmug.com > *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 <p...@paulstewart.org> > 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 ... >> >> >> *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com <af-boun...@afmug.com>] *On >> Behalf Of *Kurt Fankhauser >> *Sent:* Friday, May 26, 2017 2:53 PM >> *To:* af@afmug.com >> *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 < >> m...@mailmt.com> wrote: >> >> Mark, >> >> Here is the link I was talking about >> >> http://blog.skystreamx.com/fix-kodi-buffering/ >> >> >> >> *-- Best regards,Mark *mailto:m...@mailmt.com >> <m...@mailmt.com> >> >> >> *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 >> >> >> *------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:m...@mailmt.com >> <m...@mailmt.com> >> >> >> *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 >> >> >> *------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 < >> par...@cyberbroadband.net> wrote: >> >> >> >> haven't been able to reach him yet. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> *From: *Jeremy <jeremysmi...@gmail.com> >> *To: *af@afmug.com >> *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 < >> par...@cyberbroadband.net> 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 <timreichh...@hometowncable.net> >> *To: *af@afmug.com >> *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" <jno...@lrcomm.com> >> To: af@afmug.com >> 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 < >> par...@cyberbroadband.net> 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 >> >> >> > >
