Anyone running Kodi v17.0 beta on Win 10?

Blunted 4 lyfe said:

Europe has always had a problem when it comes to piracy, anyone who watches IPTV or forks on Kodi had better be watching using a vpn.
In America we don’t have to worry about that, but it doesn’t mean a case can’t be filed against you but you have to be a big pirater.

I still use IPTV the best so far IMO is Terrarium tv followed by showbox.

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Using Kodi in the EU is NOT an issue, provided you are only streaming and not actually downloading as the European Court of Justice declared doing such a thing is perfectly legal as you do not keep a permanent copy of whatever you watch nor do you upload the stream.

Provided you use the right addons, as in don't use anything that needs Plexus or AceStream, nobody can do a thing to you as the highest court in the EU has declared streaming to be legal due to you not uploading or saving a copy..

The second you upload, whether accidentally or on purpose, or save whatever you are watching to your computer/whatever, then that's a different matter.

So be like me, hook a miniPC (mine is an Acer Revo, gave me more options than an Android TV box and is smaller than a bag of flour) up to the TV and watch what you want via the likes of the Covenant addon, they can't do a thing to you.

Cx2H said:

Over here the mpaa gets real frisky with cease and desist orders if you get picked off for sharing. Hit and run they can't really do anything.

If you seed anything for more than a few minutes you get ISP fukery in the form of a splash wall saying what you were serving.

Now with Kodi based sheet they are after the repo admins of the most popular instead of the 65 million users.

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Have you tried Peerblock? Stops a hell of a lot of these nasty "watchers" from seeing what you are doing if you are doing P2P stuff.

To go back to this, some advice for those without medium or high end machines.

My miniPC is an Acer Revo with a 1.4Ghz Celeron, 4Gb ram and Intel HD graphics on board and, well, 1080p streams struggled. At first I thought it could be lag on the WiFi, but with my new provider I have it cabled (modem in a different position so slinging cables is easier) so that ruled that out. Turned off all non essential Windows guff, changed antivirus to something less intrusive, made sure drivers were up to date from manufacturers and not Windows Update, everything I could think of but there was still stuttering, puttering and crashes.

Enough, I said, and wiped the bugger and installed Linux Mint with Cinnamon desktop so SWMBO can navigate easily. The difference is phenomenal, no crashes, all streams run smoother than a bloody good Speyside single malt.

So if you have a lower end machine, Linux the bugger for Kodi instead of using Win10. Make it a dual boot if you MUST use Windows for certain things if you wish, but use Linux for Kodi.

You won't regret the 30-60 mins spent doing so.

Fubard said:

Using Kodi in the EU is NOT an issue, provided you are only streaming and not actually downloading as the European Court of Justice declared doing such a thing is perfectly legal as you do not keep a permanent copy of whatever you watch nor do you upload the stream.

Provided you use the right addons, as in don't use anything that needs Plexus or AceStream, nobody can do a thing to you as the highest court in the EU has declared streaming to be legal due to you not uploading or saving a copy..

The second you upload, whether accidentally or on purpose, or save whatever you are watching to your computer/whatever, then that's a different matter.

So be like me, hook a miniPC (mine is an Acer Revo, gave me more options than an Android TV box and is smaller than a bag of flour) up to the TV and watch what you want via the likes of the Covenant addon, they can't do a thing to you.

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Unfortunately not all individuals have the means to upgrade to higher end machines so they’re stuck using what they have, but any PC beats a firestick or any other android box, if only every streamer had Linux.
I’ve ran just about every streaming source out there and by far the go-to sources for me here in the USA are mobro, Terrariumtv and Firetvguru backed up with a VPN ( I recommend IP vanish) tweaked with real-debrid (6 months for less than 18 bucks) you can’t go wrong.

That's why I slapped Linux Mint on the miniPC

Fubard said:

That's why I slapped Linux Mint on the miniPC

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It’s Mobdro

I know, but isn't Mobdro, as an example, P2P?

If so then you can be shafted here, whereas things like the Genesis Reborn addon which does not do P2P means you don't take one in your hoop from the copyright people here and you don't need to VPN.

Fubard said:

I know, but isn't Mobdro, as an example, P2P?

If so then you can be shafted here, whereas things like the Genesis Reborn addon which does not do P2P means you don't take one in your hoop from the copyright people here and you don't need to VPN.

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Yeah, streaming is accepted, downloading and sharing will get you rammed.

Oh hell yeah downloading is the quickest path to fucksville, a VPN is just like is just a small layer of protection where you hope nobody “sees” what you’re doing.

Forgot to add something about Kodi Krypton on Linux Mint 18 Sylvia, which could well apply to other Debian based Linux installs.

You may be suffering random crashes to desktop for no apparent reason. The issue is NOT Kodi but is Mint itself, specifically the python cryptography, so follow the instructions in the following link to solve the problem.

Mint 18.2 Many Problems - Kodi Crashes, Freezes, Addons & Widgets won't load

I see no reason this would not work on other Debian based versions of Linux, and I now have no issues with Kodi crashing using Linux whatsoever.