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Re:Facebook Bans Kodi Device Sales by nobleach on Monday August 13, 2018 @06:22PM (#17754047)
Very odd. I can't imagine the rationale. "But you could watch pirated movies with it".... uh yeah, same for VLC, can I sell my Macbook on Facebook?
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Re:Facebook Bans Kodi Device Sales by LeoPanthera on Monday August 13, 2018 @06:26PM (#17754068)
None of them have plain vanilla Kodi on them. If they did, Amazon wouldn't have a problem selling them - and probably no-one would buy them either.

They're all preloaded with insta-piracy plugins.

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Re:Facebook Bans Kodi Device Sales by chatmasta on Monday August 13, 2018 @06:25PM (#17754061)
The media companies, especially in the UK, have been making a huge deal out of these so called “piracy boxes.” People have gone to jail for selling them in shops IIRC.

Yes, it’s ridiculous.

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Re:Facebook Bans Kodi Device Sales by nmca on Monday August 13, 2018 @07:04PM (#17754247)
Cory Doctorow had a thing about this, I believe it was called "The coming war on general purpose computing"
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