The founder of the Kodi add-on repository Adam Lackman has admitted liability in a piracy case brought against him by Bell, Rogers, and Videotron, and ordered to pay C$25 million (€17.5m) in damages.
The Federal Court in Ontario has barred Lackman from distributing the “add-ons” through tvaddons.ag, offshore.git.com and other similar sites. He has also been prevented from developing or maintaining any add-ons based on the FreeTelly or Indigo tools.
The cable companies began legal proceedings against about 45 Canadian companies for selling ‘fully-loaded’ Android boxes in December 2016.
A separate case brought by the US satellite platform DISH was settled in 2018.
TVAddons was a library of hundreds of apps known as add-ons. Once downloaded on an Android box or a computer with added software, some of the add-ons allow people easy access to pirated movies, TV shows and even live television.
In Europe, the selling of the pre-loaded Android boxes was ruled illegal by the European Court of Justice in 2017.
