1st off ... in responce to the 'no reason to use Kodi Sky has it all, that some one posted (paraphrasing)' no ... Sky doesn't have what most want ... Sky's offerings in most places is a diluted mudpuddle of crap feed to you on a box of junk e.g. little or nothing you want on an unstable service through an unstable platform (Sky Box)...
The base issue with Movie and TV is the slow adoption of a world wide market. Not that music, book and game are perfect solutions but they have at least embraced if not somewhat reluctantly in some cases the notion of digital distribution and as a result you can buy, sub, rent, whatever the content you want regardless of where it was made, where it was made for, where you are from or where you are ... for the most part.
The way it will end up is that digital distribution will be the common form. You will be distributing globaly e.g. your customer may be an Amarican, sitting in an appartment in Tokeyo loged into an account created while they where in the UK and they are watching a show in Porteguess done by a Brizzilian studio ... in fact that sort of thing is not uncommon now.
The market for media is global, there is no room for notions of regions and exclusive distribution is just a tool to enable price fixing/discrimination which in other industries would be outright illigal. That is the big reason you see a so much piracy. Most of the people I know that resort to Kodi ... which frankly is a shaky clunky little beast to work with ... is becuase they want to watch or finish watching something that isn't available where they are at the moment and cant be had through the media monopoly that holds the area they are in at the moment.
Just as soon as the rights holders stop serving up exclusive distribution rights to companies like Sky and start supporting multiple digital distribution channels like Google Play, Netflix, Amazon, etc. we will see a massive decline in amount of piracy as most people are simply to lazy to use a hack solution when a fair priced one that is actually stable and has what they want is sitting right there.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
