The TVAddons, a leading library for unofficial Kodi addons, has mysteriously disappeared. The domains of the website do not seem to be responding and the DNS entries seem to be missing. 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 bookcase TVAddons is subject to prosecution in a Texas federal court.
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.
Since yesterday, however, these millions of users can no longer access the site. Without a warning or a public explanation, the domain name TVAddons stopped responding. DNS registrations appear to have been removed, which means that the name and page are no longer accessible to the public.
In fact, a few hours ago, the TVAddons page at Facebook disappeared completely.
TVAddons listed 1.500 different add-ons, which was the community's Exodus addon and was one of the most popular.
Ίσως είναι νωρίς για να βγάλουμε συμπεράσματα για το μέλλον των addons του Kodi όπως τα γνωρίσαμε, αλλά όλα δείχνουν ότι τα πράγματα έγιναν πολύ δύσκολα για τις κοινότητες που τα στηρίζουν. Φυσικά κανείς δεν μπορεί να κάνει προβλέψεις γιατί η κοινότητα του torrent μας έχει αποδείξει ότι αν και πάρα πολλοί δεν επιθυμούν τη λειτουργία της, αυτή συνεχίζει να υπάρχει...
Update: Exodus seems to work for the moment, though many of its streaming distribution sources do not seem to be showing up.
