Broadly claiming illegality is not accurate since it varies entirely from country to country, an individuals personal access to the individual media in question, and the particular media.
Anyone deleting old emails is currently guilty a felony, not kidding or being hyperbolic.
https://www.wired.com/2016/06/admin-faces-felony-deleting-files-flawed-hacking-law/
So in a practical sense it comes down to ethics and potential consequences. Ethics I have no qualms on numerous fronts and potential consequences are practically non existent unless you are the uploader as BIFFTAZ pointed out being the norm so stream away.
no matter what country, piracy is illegal.
and away you go going off topic again that has fuck all to do with the post.
to bring it back, kodi is not illegal, plugins such as exodus is, regardless of what country you reside.... the stream links are not paid for, thus is no different to downloading said movie or tv show.
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I disagree with this statement, in so much as IMHO Exodus is more akin to a torrent client combined with torrent sites, such as TPB or KAT; it allows access to potentially illegal material but doesn't host it. Exodus, and all the similar Kodi apps, are the same, in that they scrape a number of streaming sources, but doesn't host it themselves.
The true illegality is the streaming sites hosting the pirated content.
Some of the other Kodi apps that can directly stream livesources (whether it be cams or live tv) are probably more shady in their legality than the likes of Exodus, because they are directly hijacking live streams.
all these plugins that are coded to scrape for links to movies/tv shows or what ever are illegal.
just because they dont host the file, it is created to give access.
its not like the argument pirate bay tried years ago, its not responsible for what its users put up, which in a sense can be right, as not all p2p files are illegal, you could use p2p to share your own content that you create/own.
but this is not the case, plugins such as exodus are solely to find and stream movies and tv shows that is illegal.
this is where people are getting it wrong thinking kodi is illegal, users who are selling boxes or sticks pre loaded with kodi and plugins to gain access to stream movies/tv shows/channels such as sky sports is then the part that makes it illegal.
no different to you selling a HDD full of copied dvds, if you was caught you could be prosecuted because you are violating the copyright law.
and this is no corrupt law before the dude starts ranting then gives a completely bs link off topic, you have the right to protect your product by law to stop people stealing it.