Kodi.tv site seized by Homeland Security???
UPDATE: It was, as we suspected, an April Fool’s joke. However, there was a serious message from the Kodi Team…
However, despite the “seized-and-offline” gag, there’s a serious message here. It is genuinely true that we’re facing a constant tidal wave of piracy boxes, trademark infringements and erroneous (or outright misleading) news reports. Hardly a day goes past without the Kodi brand getting dragged into the mud somewhere, and it is a continuous and thankless task to push back on that across this forum, Facebook, Twitter, and the press.
Read the full message here: https://kodi.tv/article/andwere-baaaaack
Today is April 1st. If you visit http://kodi.tv right now, you get this page.
Has the Kodi domain been seized by Homeland Security?
We doubt it. It is, after all, April Fool’s Day.
Kodi themselves have tweeted the following:
In addition, users on both Twitter and Reddit are suggesting the notice is fake due to other code on the page still coming from Kodi themselves, which wouldn’t be the case if the takedown was real.
However, users are reporting the whole site has been affected including downloads so don’t try and install or update Kodi (or official addons) for the moment.
We’ll update this page when we find out more.