under federal piracy laws you must posses and distribute the material, using kodi you do neither. there is research online showing court rulings and streaming these shows is still currently legal.
Well Kodi is just a platform. They can just play dumb to it all. Which is exactly what they've been doing. It's the add-ons that can and will be shut down at some point. How they decide to shut it down (end point or feeder point) will possibly be the users concern.