Rights Owners List World's Biggest Piracy Sites

The recording and film industries have presented their lists of the worst piracy websites to the US government - making, incidentally, for a pretty good cut-out-and-keep guide to finding illegal content.

One highlight of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) submission is fully-loaded streaming boxes such as Kodi, which, as it points out, can be easily configured to point viewers to unlicensed films and television shows.

"Streaming device piracy – enabled by preloaded piracy devices and unauthorized add-ons – poses a significant and evolving challenge," says MPAA CEO Charles Rivkin.

"Today, six percent of North American households own a device with software configured to access pirated content."


However, TV Addons - which says it offers 'all the best unofficial Kodi addons' - complains that the MPAA is dragging its reputation through the mud.

"This is despite the fact that no MPAA affiliate ever sent us a single DMCA complaint in all our years of operation," it complains in a statement.

While it concedes that it did have a run-in with the MPAA in June after the organization entered into a global anti-piracy alliance with Bell Canada, it fulfilled all its legal obligations, it says.