https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43apbp/big-tv-is-trying-to-use-lawsuits-to-crush-pirated-streaming-on-kodi-boxes-kodi-streaming-lawsuit

In recent months, the media playing software Kodi has attracted a surge of attention and new users. You'd think this would be something the folks who created Kodi would be thrilled about, but that's not the case.

"Two years ago we were just another software and then the explosion happened," Nathan Betzen, the president of the XBMC Foundation, which administers the Kodi project, told me. "People assumed it was awesome for us but it was not. When the reason you're blowing up is because third-party add-ons help people pirate, you get all kinds of phone calls and emails."