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TVAddons says goodbye to Kodi: the well-known repository will have to pay 19.5 million dollars for piracy

One of the best known Kodi repositories is TVAddons. A service that has a large amount of content and that, after several legal battles, has just announced that it is closing its doors permanently.

In June 2017, this repository of addons for Kodi, which is one of the most widely used worldwide, disappeared from the Internet And the reason was a lawsuit filed by Bell Canada, Bell ExpressVu, Bell Media, Videotron, Groupe TVA, Rogers Communications and Rogers Media, Canadian communications companies that sued TVAddons in the Federal Court of Canada since the creator of this repository, Adam Lackman, resided in Montreal.

In the lawsuit, they stated that TVAddons offered content protected by copyrightsuch as Game of Thrones, The Big Bang Theory, Got Talent America or Keeping Up With The Kardashians among others.

TVAddons got their first hit

Piracy on Kodi

The resolution of the Federal Court of Canada was clear: Lackman could not do any activity related to TV Addons, without that the owner of the repository could prepare a defense, which caused quite a stir on the Internet. The plaintiffs even had a search warrant to gain access to Lackman’s home without notice.

TVAddons came back with another name, but traffic plummeted. And, although it is true that it still had a lot of content, little by little Kodi lost interest due to the legal considerations of this repository.

It is true that until recently TVAddons was still active, but suddenly it stopped working. In addition, the web domain was transferred to GoDaddy, which heralded an end to this repository.

TVAddons says goodbye permanently

Kodi

Now, a letter dated February 18, 2022 confirms that this Kodi repository is gone forever. Mostly because Lackman has reached a settlement with the plaintiffs agreeing to a consent trial. And that has been reviewed and issued by Judge Rochester, who set out the terms agreed in her sentence issued on February 22, 2022.

Lackman has acknowledged his direct or indirect involvement in “developing, hosting, distributing, or promoting Kodi add-ons that provide users with unauthorized access” to plaintiffs’ television shows, to the contrary. to sections 3(1)(f) and 27(1) of the Copyright Act. The result is that Lackman has to pay the plaintiffs US$19.5 million, in addition to transferring the assets of the service to the whistleblower group.

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