The European Court of Justice this week ruled that production of Jodi Boxes is now illegalmovies or any sort of media without the right holders' permission is ILLegal
NOTE: Just a small update. Streaming movies has always been illegal anyway. Streaming really is just as bad as downloading movies. Example with Kodi streams are downloaded into a temporary file.
I see this more as a statement that attention will be brought to the matter of media streaming content that is illegal and that action will take place.l
Now owning Kodi itself is NOT illegal. Kodi's main purpose was to stream your own virtual library content.
If the content belongs to you it is perfectly legal. However, if you use a third party addonthat allows you
to view movies then that is copyright infringement
If you know someone who streams movies or any sort of media for "free" please inform them about this
UPDATE I'd like to sincerely apologize for my false information. I myself was misinformed about this situation. This law is not against watching Kodi streams but to prevent Kodi add-on box production. I cannot apologize enough from my mistake. This post is going to be privated in the morning to save myself the embarrassment. I apologize for my mistake. I should have done more thorough research on this matter. Really sorry guys
Pdf document http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2017-04/cp170040en.pdf