[bsilvereagle]

> with access to Kodi that don't regard it as theft/piracy

> They become pretty defensive when you accuse them of it.

I would too!

Kodi itself isn't theft/piracy. Kodi is a FOSS media manager that is extremely extensible. Several extensions enabling piracy have been created by third-party developers.

This may seem pedantic, but it is extremely important to differentiate between a FOSS media manager and piracy-oriented plugins.

[laumars]

It's not pedantic at all. It's literally the same as people running torrent clients on Windows and thus then calling Windows a piracy tool.

The term "Kodi box" really annoys me because the core tools that people buy these "Kodi boxes" for are 3rd party applications that happen to execute inside Kodi's plugin system but otherwise are not affiliated with Kodi at all. They're not even included in the Kodi's official repositories.

[_fzslm]

It's not pedantic at all! As is repeatedly said, it's like calling Google Chrome a piracy application because you can go to The Pirate Bay with it.