Kodi has now been largely silenced by TV right holders cracking down on its 3rd party Addons: those looking to stream illegal contents now look elsewhere

Kodi silenced: the Premier League Kodi piracy court order

The Premier League recently secured a court order that enables it to tackle illegal video streams of football matches via Kodi set-top boxes, currently one of the biggest draws for those that use the media streamer for illegal streaming.

Kodi silenced: Internet service providers and broadcasters 

Apart from,  the countermeasures from contents rights holders, broadcasters and AND CONTENT CREATORS, INCLUDING sKY, century fox are now using advanced watermarking techniques to detect the point of origin of any free online streams. Similarly to this, ISP in the UK is collaborating with the government to block any account that is guilty of illegal streaming.

Kodi silenced: Availability of mobile app for content streaming

Mobile apps(especially Apks for android phones). are gradually and steadily replacing Kodi(especially in Africa) because they consume fewer data and they tends to be faster. Also, they don’t get to block them too frequently. Interestingly, most mobile IPTV Apks are free.

Kodi silenced: Abundance of Free IPTV streams URL

You can wake up and search google for free IPTV URL, you will be amazed at the number of results that you can get by so doing.

Kodi silenced: Miscellaneous Causes

The local content provider also crackdown on broadcast pirates. Recently in Africa, popular IPTV  server being operated by the various hackers group were shut down by original contents owners such as Multichoice, Bein and canalsat. The same is also true of the rest of the world where such activities abound.

Finally, all the points mentioned under the “disadvantages of using Kodi media player and Kodi boxes” above are also responsible for the decreasing popularity of Kodi amongst sports and movies lovers using it to stream copyrighted contents.

Bonus: Here’s a list of the best add-ons you can install using the official Kodi repo.

• USTVNOW
• iPlayer WWW
• Plex
• Zattoo Box
• Youtube
• NBC Sports
• Fox Sports Go
• ESPN

• Crackle

• PopcornFlix
• PS Vue
• NBA League Pass
• NHL.TV
• NFL GamePass
• Crunchyroll
• Rai on Demand
• DR TV