The Kodi boxes are dishonest, those that stream copyrighted material or share it are dishonest, those that download copyrighted material are dishonest, but watching a stream that is there on the internet - that is certainly up for debate. There is some case law that says that watching a stream...
It is from wherever the programmer of the Add-On has linked to. It could be any stream anywhere on the internet. All Kodi does is enable the Add-On writers to create a neat and tidy library of it all on an easy to use interface.
I'd agree with this as posted above, but I did look into the legal side, and case law would suggest someone watching a stream is not breaking any law, and would only be doing so if they were to record the stream / broadcast. That said, you are right that those streaming the content are and the...
It's not perfect. Though Kodi makes it very easy to find streams, you are still relying on streams - while you find a good stream most of the time, HD is not always guaranteed and you can experience a bit of buffering. I find that it can crash if you pause stuff on it, and some controls are...
Kodi doesn't have any of its own streams, all it does is collate multimedia together as a sort of multimedia operating system. It evolved from XBMC which was basically a bit of software written for Xbox i.e. XB Media Centre (or Controller). So what you have is someone who writes an Add-On for...