The Kodi media player is currently being used by millions of people for one specific purpose: watching free TV.
Kodi is an open source media player meant for playing people’s local media files, however due to the open source nature of the software, and its ability to interface with Python plugins, is used by lots of users to watch free movies and television shows, by interfacing with the most popular of online streaming sites, and displaying them as Netflix-style menus, without any ads or popups of any kind.
Some of the more popular unofficial Kodi addons now interface with dozens of streaming sites at the same time, giving you access to far more content than any legitimate cord-cutting service would.
It is interesting because of the fact that Kodi’s official developers have actually spoken against these type of addons, however according to TV Addons it remains the main use of the majority of Kodi users.
“We are the primary source for unofficial addons and tools for Kodi, developers from around the world are on our forums providing user support and updates for their addons. It runs on many platforms including but not limited to Mac, Windows and Android,” writes TV Addons in an email to Broadband TV News.
“Kodi bundled with addons is much safer than Popcorn Time and torrents because it simply accesses streaming content, it doesn’t actually download permanent copies, nor assist in redistributing any content to users whatsoever.”
However, Team Kodi says it has no knowledge what people are doing, “We on Team Kodi have no idea what our users are doing with Kodi. We use zero tracking software. My guess is, therefore, that you are getting numbers from piracy addon providers who do use tracking numbers, but those numbers would only tell you how many people are using those particular addons, not how many people there are overall using Kodi, or even how many are not using the addons but are otherwise using Kodi.”
