The American satellite broadcast provider Dish Network filed a lawsuit against two very well-known Kodi add-ons: ZemTV and TVAddons.ag. The complaint accuses ZemTV of direct copyright infringement from various television channels and TVAddons of distributing pirated material through add-ons. 
We should note that the lawsuits were not random, as increasingly more people are using Kodi-based set-top boxes for streaming pirated content on their TVs.
The Kodi application is a completely legal platform, but third‑party add‑ons can turn it into an outright piracy machine, providing access to movies, TV shows, and IPTV channels.
These add‑ons are direct competition for traditional broadcast providers, such as Dish Network in the United States, which filed a lawsuit in a federal Texas court last week.
The complaint lists the ZemTV add-on as the main target, as the service in question allows users to watch various satellite channels without permission.
“The ZemTV service rebroadcasts the channels over the Internet to end users who download the ZemTV add-on for the Kodi media player, which is available for download on the websites www.tvaddons.ag and www.tvaddons.org” say the lawyers of Dish.
The TVAddons platform, which hosts hundreds of unofficial Kodi add-ons including ZemTV, is also referred to as a defendant. According to Dish, TVAddons plays a significant role in the distribution of illegal content.
It probably won't be a surprise if TVAddons is forced to start removing add-ons due to legal threats. It should be noted that the lawsuit against ZemTV and TVAddons is the first of its kind in the United States.
Thus it is probably being closely monitored by other copyright holders, add-on developers, and platforms similar to TVAddons.
