Its a rhetoric question. Howtogeek posted a nice article about KODI. Read it. Understand it. Share it with friends. http://www.howtogeek.com/290346/kodi-is-not-a-piracy-application/
Well, you are right, the question was really a clickbait. Designed to make awareness on how kodi operates and how third party can add ILLEGAL features to it, giving it a bad name.
One would think that was some crap from a American media source, namely FOX (Fake) News. Or something connected to Phonywood. I wouldn't connect that to anything in the UK or Europe.