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Originally Posted by Karellen
Oh, that is a shame.
With us, most people aren't aware but Kodi is forked and rebranded quite a lot. So your Plex, DVDFab MediaPlayer, OpenELEC, LibreELEC, Mediaportal, Boxee to name a few are all Kodi rebranded with some tweaks to suit their own purposes.
We don't really care, and some of those other organisations contribute upstream to help improve Kodi as well as their own forks, others don't.
It's only when someone forks, uses our logo and essentially tries to pass themselves off as us do we request takedown notices via trademark violations.
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The developer of
Playnite has had similar troubles with rip-offs being posted on the Microsoft Store. Hilariously, when he tried to put an update up himself, it got blocked: