There is a very big difference between Boxee Box and Boxee. D-Link was left holding the bag with Boxee Box OS which looked like "Boxee", but was a firmware INSTALLED on a ROM in the Boxee Box. D-Link paid for the Boxee Box servers for years, and killed off the sharing, access to new apps, etc., BUT kept the Login (anonymous) running internally now in Taiwan instead of a US based server. Taiwan must have finally decided to stop that two weeks ago.
Samsung bought the Israeli run Boxee, but did nothing with it, there were NO servers involved and I suspect that they quickly realized that that Israeli that ran Boxee had screwed Samsung too, just like he screwed all of us owners. Boxee never made it in any form to a Samsung TV or device.
My wife worked at D-Link USA for 18 years, we've been trough this over and over again with D-Link brass to keep the servers going, but the company is Taiwanese and that means BE CHEAP. The servers cost them $2,400 a year to pay for. They pinch a nickel so hard the Bison is knocked off.
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