![]() ![]() ![]() The resulting viewing experience looks legitimate whether what’s being viewed is legal or not, and many Kodi users don’t even realize they are consuming pirated content. Kodi’s elegant on-screen packaging filters all of it through a smooth interface replete with metadata that automatically outfits the content with posters, cast lists, and other features. The Kodi software is legal, but because it is open-source, it can be customized with all sorts of apps and add-ons, many of which offer unauthorized movies, television shows, sports programming, and even live broadcasts for free, or at a reduced price. Kodi is an open-source system that lets you gather up all your streaming content – movies, television shows, music, even personal photos – in one place and pipe it into your living room television. To understand what Plex is and how it functions, it is helpful to look at Kodi – another dangerous digital media player that we have written about repeatedly here at CreativeFuture. ![]() Thanks to a rapidly growing media application called Plex, torrent-based piracy is back in vogue, and better than ever (for criminals who have no problem with profiting from content that doesn’t belong to them, that is). In fact, the problem now finds itself on a dangerous precipice where it could easily slip right back into becoming a crisis again, as it was in the mid-2000s – before streaming was all the rage. Unfortunately, we are far from curbing the plague of download piracy. Whatever percentage of that stolen revenue is going to a seemingly archaic means of theft, it’s still billions of dollars too many for an industry that supports 2.6 million jobs in America – and it needs to be stopped. If those numbers sound low to you, keep in mind that online piracy in general cost the film and television industry an estimated $37.4 billion in lost revenue in 2018. In fact, according to digital piracy data firm MUSO, torrent-based digital theft makes up around 20 percent of all film piracy, and around five percent of all television piracy. With streaming entrenched as the dominant form of video consumption online, it’s easy to forget that piracy via the illegal downloading of actual files (AKA the old-fashioned way), remains alive and well. ![]()
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