4-5 (ish?) Years ago there was a lot of media coverage about how kodi was a "piracy app" because some cheap set tops were shipping it with bundled torrent (etc) plugins. There were various legal threats against the project itself. Worth searching for in hn archives, lots of good discussion about it and how much of a coordinated smear campaign it was/n't.
To show just how much the XBMC Foundation is against using their work for piracy:
They chose the name Kodi because it was the most protectable trademark they could claim, which opened an avenue for them to sue the drop-shippers for trademark violation.
I feel they’re in the same position Dolphin is - attempting to keep a center of respectability above what everyone knows the product is actually used for.
The emulation scene is more extra than I can handle atm, so I'll focus more on the XBMC Foundation:
What more can they do? They make a legal product with plenty of legal and licensed uses and they did their due diligence to prevent piracy via their product as much as possible. They also did so without being hostile to customers and unnecessarily locking-down their plugin system.
A little virtue signaling can go a long way sometimes.
