We finally know who is behind the popular third-party Kodi add-on site TVAddons and what happened to the site. Adam Lackman a Canadian resident, today posted an update on his site TVaddons.
According to a story and an Adam Lackman Indiegogo fundraiser here is what happened.
What Happened When TVAddons Went Dark
On June 12, Adam Lackman, the owner of TVAddons, was the subject of an Anton Pillar order in Canada. Anton Pillar orders are meant to preserve evidence in civil lawsuits. During the execution of the order, an independent (neutral) counsel overseeing the lawsuit, performed a search and seizure of Adam’s premises that lasted a total of 16 hours. His personal computer and other belongings were seized including domain names and social media accounts that weren’t even related to TV Addons. This all happened after a Canadian court approved the Anton Pillar request.
Lackman was interrogated for nine hours and the domain names behind TVAddons had been seized by the law firm behind the Anton Pillar order.
On appeal, Lackman won an order to have everything returned to him; however, Canadian cable companies appealed that ruling and won allowing them to keep everything they took from Lackman.
So in Summary
Well the short end is TVAddons is being sued in the United States and in Canada. According to Lackman he has already had $75,000 in legal fees and is now looking to raise $250,000 to help pay his bills.
As of today the Canadian government’s appointed neutral law firm has control of all TVAddons domains, computers, and any other files they seized in the search of Lackman’s property.
According to the Canadian cable companies, they are going after TVAddons because “Approximately 40 million unique users located around the world are actively using Infringing Addons hosted by TVAddons every month, and approximately 900,000 Canadian households use Infringing Add-ons to access television content. The amount of users of Infringing Addons hosted [by] TVAddons is constantly increasing,” the complaint adds.
No date has been set for the next court hearing. For now the last court appeal allows the Canadian law firm to keep everything they found during the search of Lackman’s property until the nex hearing. This raises the question if they will someday share that information with the U.S. court case brought on by Dish Network.
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We Now Know What Happened to TVAddons (Canadian Cable Companies Seized It)
How big did the Canadian Cable Companies size it to be?
Raising $250,000?!! Don’t do the crime if you’re not willing to do the time.
wow, that was a good article..
It is……Canadians everywhere should be scared about this case and the gross misuse of the legal system by the telcos.
I can hear him now… “Arrrrr matey, the scurvy bilge rats done keelhauled me and pilfered me treasure!”
“Wasn’t this the addon that was spreading a computer virus?”
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Where’s your proof?
I didn’t mean it WAS the addon spreading a virus… it was a question… I thought there was something like this that had a virus. As far as the piracy angle, I know it’s the end user, not necessarily the software (I say, I say… it was a joke, son)
+1 for the Foghorn Leghorn reference. 🙂
Now I have thoughts in my head that you’re from the old school Southern era. Ha!
Space Jam: Best Scene:
“Did you order Original Recipe or Extra Crispy?”
Wondered if anyone was old enough to get the reference! 😉 I know I’m bias, but those were the best cartoons ever!
I’m pretty old……and my pop culture knowledge isn’t too bad, if I do say so myself.
Yeah, we’ve seen the rise of this PC garbage and the corporations destroying the fabric of society….as our politicians sit by and watch the plebs fight amongst themselves with smoke and mirrors media biased reporting.
computer virus?? Not likely…the n unit was supposed to be connected to TV, not computer.
This is pure greed…considering that the cable companies are charging consumers huge sums for ever restricting access to better channels while not paying a cent to the TV networks producing the TV shows!