Kodi / XBMC banned from Amazon App Store

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Yabanize

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#175089 16-Jun-2015 21:31

Amazon has removed Kodi from it's Amazon Fire TV app store "because it can be used to facilitate piracy"

More here
http://torrentfreak.com/amazon-bans-kodi-app-over-piracy-concerns-150616/

May as well ban all media player software.

Scott3

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#1326180 16-Jun-2015 22:36

Lame.

I really liked having the Kodi icon on my homepage. (although you need to side-load kodi itself).

Kodi is great for playing files off my NAS, and I don't use any add ons. My normal go to media player VLC is poorly implemented on the Amazon fire, to the point where it is unusable.

Guess I will need to resort to other options to retain a homepage link.

littleheaven

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#1326193 16-Jun-2015 23:38

May as well ban all computers from their store too, then. I've heard you can use them to facilitate piracy.

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nickrout

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#1336195 3-Jul-2015 09:15

They still sell "fully loaded" (ie full of piracy addons) kodi boxes on amazon.com. But of course Amazon gets a cut of every sale, so that never gets stopped by Amazon, despite breaches of the kodi trademark.