So far several legal theories have been used one in Europe against sellers of Kodi boxes, one in Canada against the owner of the popular Kodi add-on repository TVAddons, and two in the United States against TVAddons and a plugin developer. The difficulty facing the titans of TV is that since neither those who sell Kodi boxes, nor those who write or host add-ons for the software, are engaging in any unauthorized copying by doing so, cases targeting these parties have to rely on other legal theories. law and regulations that mandate effective competition in the cable set-top box market. We've also seen it in the big TV networks' vehement, sometimes disingenuous opposition to the U.S. Trade Representative's Special 301 Report, in proposals for new legislation targeting the sale of 'illicit' media boxes, and in lawsuits that have been brought on both sides of the Atlantic to address the 'problem' that media boxes running Kodi, like any Web browser, can be used to access media streams that were not authorized by the copyright holder. We've seen this in the appearance of streaming media boxes as an enforcement priority in the U.S. But in the past few years, the sale of pre-configured Kodi boxes, and the availability of a range of plugins providing access to streaming media, has seen the software's popularity balloon-and made it the latest target of Hollywood's copyright enforcement juggernaut. For most of the lifetime of Kodi since its release as XMBC in 2002, it was an obscure piece of free software that geeks used to manage their home media collections.

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