Posted: 4/10/2015 4:32:02 PM EDT
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I'm working a homeshow and the vendor in the booth across from me is selling a black box called easyviewtv (as seen at easyviewtv dot com). Seems legit, right?  |
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That would be my #1 question. I'll ask and post his answer. Tell the scammer that the rest of us already know what XBMC/Kodi is, and that his attempts at obscuring the software that his fraudulent device is actually using under the hood are failing miserably. Signed, Subnet from the Internet. ps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodi_%28software%29 |
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"When Obama became president he made analog TV obsolete and put digital TV and movies streaming from satellites around the world so our troops can watch them anywhere!" I shit you not. I fucking hate people like this. 
Fuck him, and the fly-by-night sham of a company he works for. |
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I might drop a note to the show coordinator. Although I just tried a Google search of "easyviewtv legality" and this thread is the #1 hit (which is amazing and scary in itself). That's probably the first thing she would try, too, I would think. He's essentially selling a small form factor PC that's running a copy of the (perfectly legal and insanely cool) home theater PC software Kodi (formerly XBMC). Kodi is open source software, and completely free. The "free TV" shit he's advertising is made possible by sketchy (and notoriously unreliable) third-party Kodi plugins. They're hit or miss, because the illicit streaming sources these types of add-ons/plugins rely on are constantly getting shutdown, or are otherwise plagued with quality/performance/reliability problems. Most, if not nearly all of these "free TV and movie" plugins, simply scrape video content from illicit streaming websites that you can already watch with nothing more than a web browser. So tell him Subnet from the Internet says "fuck off". |
| It's legit. We go over to my buddy's house and watch paid.... stuff streamed by random folks. And it requires a jail break and amazon TV to work. FYI the movies on there aren't cam versions for the most part. The onces I seen were good quality. Most people aren't smart enough to get the free movies. I've said to much. |