The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by kop316 on Monday February 12, 2018 @12:26PM (#16360164)

I would ask that unless you have solid statistics, please do not assume this. I feel it is incredibly disrespectful to the developers who put out a great product that is legal and people legally use. Like other comments, I use Plex to format shift my legally purchased DVDs and CDs onto a media server. I also use it to legally DVR OTA TV.

There are also countries outside of the USA in which format shifting DVDs is explicitly legal (France for example).

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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by jjeaff on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @01:29AM (#16365174)

Granted, it's a guess. And 99.99 is hyperbole. But if I had to make a real guess, I'd say more than 90% of kodi installs are used for piracy.

Sure, there is a contingent of people using it to rip their own movies, but if that was really a core usage of Kodi, it would be a core feature. But it isn't. If you rip DVDs or bluerays, you have to integrate third party software.

What is a core feature of Kodi? Grokking large numbers of video files that use usenet/torrent naming standards as well as a nice API that virtually all torrent clients integrate with.

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