The TVAddons, a leading library for unofficial Kodi addons, has mysteriously disappeared. The site's domains don't seem to be responding and the DNS records don't seem to exist. It's unclear why and how this all happened, but given the lawsuit the agency received last week, some fear the worst.
Last week we passed the news That the TVAddons library is subject to prosecution by a federal court in Texas.
Since then, Kodi's pirate community has been in turmoil. Pretty popular Kodi addons have decided to close, and now TVAddons itself seems to be in trouble.
TVAddons is one of Kodi's largest add-on repositories, many of which allow users to watch pirated content. The site has grown massively in recent years when 40 reported millions of unique visitors only in March.
As of yesterday, however, those millions of users can no longer access the site. Without prenotice or some public explanation, the domain name TVAddons has stopped responding. The DNS records appear to have been removed, meaning that the name and page are no longer publicly accessible.
Just a few hours ago TVAddons on Facebook disappeared completely.
TVAddons listed 1.500 different add-ons, which included the community-maintained Exodus addon and was one of the most popular.
It may be too early to draw conclusions about the future of Kodi addons as we know them, but everything shows that things have become very difficult for the communities that support them. Of course no one can make predictions because our torrent community has proven that although many do not want it to work, it still exists…
Update: Exodus seems to work for the moment, though many of its streaming distribution sources do not seem to be showing up.
