It's Breach of Copyright, which comes under Contract Law. In fact, the 'ripping' of Copyright material, to remove the DRM 'without permission', is not a 'crime' (for which you can be arrested) either. The film (and music) 'industry' would say otherwise, however (currently) even knowing you are viewing material that has been 'ripped' (without authoriastion) by SOMEONE ELSE is NOT an 'offence' of any sort So whilst it's not illegal, that doesn't make it 'right'. There is just no way for the user to know, for sure, if what they are viewing is a 'pirate' or not (although if you are viewing one of the 'latest block-busters', not yet released on DVD, you may well have a pretty good idea). What makes this controversial is that it will also search Torrents for DRM free material, and is totally incapable of distinguishing between 'pirated' (ripped) material and that made available for free (such as 'trailers' and adverts for the same Movie) Is using KODI to view ripped films 'illegal' ? This term has come to mean adding one or more KODI 'plug ins' that allow you to 'search' for 'DRM free' multi-media content - especially for feature films and music - both locally (on your own PC storage etc) and on-line In other words, you 'load' a 'search engine' for DRM free films and music In order to view 'paid for' material, Kodi requires a 'front end' plug-in, which can 'connect to' your (paid for) subscription service (such as Netflix etc) and decrypt the material first. This means Kodi itself is useless for viewing encrypted i.e. KODI is the 'new' name for the XBMC multi-media player software that was originally developed for the XBox (and other Linux type systems) and is now also running on Android systems KODI is just a video/music player = it is incapable of 'decrypting' anything, so must be 'fed' from a DRM free source.

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