Kodi users could be targeted in major anti-piracy crackdown

Kodi itself isn’t illegal, but using third-party add-ons to watch copyrighted content is. Over the past few weeks we’ve seen some developers pull their add-ons in the face of legal action, and 'fully-loaded' Kodi boxes have been in the firing line for a while. So far ordinary Kodi users have escaped scrutiny, but that could be about change as a major anti-piracy organization has expressed its intention to come after end users in "the very near future." Kieron Sharp, the chief executive of the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), detailed his plans to the Independent, and explains how authorities would… [Continue Reading]