{"id":122171,"date":"2017-11-19T10:30:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T08:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=122171"},"modified":"2017-11-17T14:42:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T12:42:21","slug":"kodi-add-on-developers-quit-after-legal-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/122171-kodi-add-on-developers-quit-after-legal-threats","title":{"rendered":"Kodi add-on developers quit after legal threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Kodi add-on developers have quit the scene, and the Colossus add-on repository has been shut down, after cease and desist letters were served on them, reported\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/kodi-developers-quit-following-threats-from-mpa-netflix-amazon-171116\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TorrentFreak<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The letters were sent by ACE, whose board members include Netflix, Amazon, and Walt Disney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSorry to say, but I am stopping all development of the urlresolver, metahandler, and my other add-ons. I am not responsible for Covenant and Bennu, but Colossus has agreed to delete the repo too,\u201d jsergio123\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jsergio123\/status\/930872944674426891\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said on Twitter<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>TorrentFreak stated that the developer behind the Colossus repository, Covenant, and Bennu has also retired from the scene after receiving legal threats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe infringing add-ons provide unlawful access to protected copyright works, including works owned by, or exclusively licensed to, the Content Companies,\u201d states the legal notice.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/229641-how-the-ace-anti-piracy-powerhouse-will-work.html\">How the ACE anti-piracy powerhouse will work<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Kodi add-on developers have quit the scene, and the Colossus add-on repository has been shut down, after cease and desist letters were served on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":73697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23473,25381,10751,101],"class_list":["post-122171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-kodi","tag-legal-threats","tag-netflix","tag-piracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}