In 2017, Bell Canada, TVA, Videotron and Rogers filed a lawsuit against the administrator of TVAddons, the largest repository of Kodi add-ons. The lawsuit proved extremely controversial but today, and after many twists and turns, the matter is now over. 
By consensus decision (PDF), its founder TVAddons [Adam Lackman] took responsibility and agreed to pay $ 19,5 million in compensation. TorrentFreak reports:
In a letter dated February 18, 2022, the complainants and Lackman told the Federal Court that they had settled their disputes by agreeing to a consensus decision.
Lackman admits he posted TV shows without copyright and helped millions of users get access. The TVAddons founder also admitted to encouraging and authorizing Kodi users to use his add-ons that facilitated piracy.
The Federal Court of course prohibited Lackman from communicating the plaintiffs' content to the public in any way, but also from developing tools such as FreeTelly and Indigo.
Lackman will have to pay the Plaintiffs the sum of twenty-five million Canadian dollars (25.000.000) in the form of a lump sum for damages, profits, criminal damages and various other court costs. The amount is about 19,5 million US dollars.
