I don’t care if someone finds my instance and manages to guess a random number to stream some random movie. Good for them I guess it would be easier to just download it themselves.

They didn’t start the project from Kodi. It is a fork of Emby.

It kind of does. Whatever and yes I’m aware of the list people keep posting and I’ve looked at it.

Yahnlets see a roku use a VPN.

Sonlook up the other issues besides AI.

That is only part of it. He also wanted to release a paid for client and was making it more difficult for the Foss clients to connect. He also wanted to change the license which would be hard considering others have contributed.

Did you read about kernel they are experimenting with using it for reviews. They have some prompts for LLM to catch issues before it gets to maintainers so it frees up time. Don’t see an issue if that is all it is.

Depends I just have a proxy and open port 443. Its not wide open but open enough that others can use it. I geo block have IP lists filter through it and suricata. Or use a VPN if others don’t need access.