News Update: Supremacy, 13 Clowns, Maverick TV & Overeasy Kodi Addon Repos Offline

[steven36]

 

A new fresh set of Kodi repositories have all gone offline: Supremacy, 13 Clowns, Maverick TV, and the Overeasy repositories are no longer available for install.

 

 

 

 

Unlike previous repositories taken offline after developers received letters from ACE and went offline to keep themselves out of legal harm, the latest new appears to be a shockwave of an arrest made in the UK earlier in the week.

 

Torrentfreak first reported that a UK man was arrested related to Kodi activities on the same day that the popular Supremacy repository went offline without a trace.

It looks like a number of other Kodi repositories have packed it in and called it quits after the Torrentfreak article was posted.

 

List of Kodi Repositories Offline – June 2019

1. Supremacy
2. 13 Clowns
3. Maverick TV
4. Overeasy

 

The Supremacy repository was home to the supremacy and Yoda Kodi addons. 13 Clowns had the 13 Clowns addon.

Maverick TV was home to Maverick TV, At the Flix, and joker Sports addons.

The Overeasy repository was home to Overeasy, Poached, and the Destiny Kodi addon.

 

All in all, it’s a sad day that some of the most popular Kodi repositories went offline.

 

Again, there is no indication that any of these repositories received an ACE letter or were threatened any official source. The move appears to be reactionary after the UK arrest earlier in the week, which is rumored to have been the developer of supremacy but is not confirmed or official as of yet.

 

Source

[The AchieVer]

More Kodi Add-On Repos Shut Down in Wake of UK Arrest

 

Following the news that an organized crime police unit in the UK has arrested the developer of a Kodi add-on, several popular add-ons and repos have shut down. Supremacy fell last week and has now been followed by 13 Clowns, Maverick TV, Overeasy, and possibly more.

Developers of Kodi add-ons, including those who maintain places to download them (repositories), have long been at risk of legal action, should they provide access to infringing content.

 

Many have been targeted directly, having received cease-and-desist letters from groups including the massive Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE). Until recently, action through the civil courts has been the assumed course of action for rightsholders but that changed with the news that police in the UK became involved.

 

As per our report published yesterday, the Covert Development and Disruption Team of the UK’s North West Regional Organised Crime Unit recently arrested a 40-year-old man on suspicion of developing and maintaining an add-on designed to facilitate access to infringing content.

 

Nobody has yet been able to publicly verify the precise target but on the same day the arrest took place, the popular Supremacy repository (repo) went down in mysterious yet coincidental circumstances. During the past few hours, news of the arrest appears to have prompted other developers to rethink their futures.

 

Given its popularity, Kodi add-on enthusiasts will be disappointed to hear that the Exodus-forked 13 Clowns add-on is one of the casualties. The end of the add-on was announced via Twitter and also in a slightly unorthodox fashion, via the Kodi software itself.

 

Rather than take the associated repo down, the developer pushed an update which reportedly disabled the add-on and delivered a shutdown message.

 

 

The Maverick TV add-on also disappeared last evening. No disabling ‘update’ of the add-on appears to have been pushed but the associated repository was deleted. That was followed by an announcement on Twitter which indicated the show is over.

 

 

 

Another casualty is the Exodus-forked Overeasy add-on. That tool was previously available from the Eggman repo but both have gone down, with the latter currently displaying an empty directory. 

Overeasy and Eggman repo call it quits

Some of the now-discontinued repos also contained add-ons in addition to their own, so the full fallout may not be known for a while. Some add-ons will find new homes but others may yet decide to throw in the towel.

 

It’s important to note that none of the above cited the arrest as a reason for closure but again, in common with the disappearance of the Supremacy repo, there are a number of coincidences that appear to fit recent developments.

 

Whatever the reasons for the closures, having an organized crime unit become involved in taking down a Kodi add-on developer is a massive escalation in the UK and will certainly prompt pause for thought among those in a similar position.

 

 

Source

[Karlston]

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