HD for free has never been readily available apart from one season when everyone had nbcsn/plp though has it?Can people specify when they are saying it was perfect in HD was it free ?
As long as 3pm games are shown around the world there will be loads of streams. Might move more towards paying a couple quid for them but that's nothing.
Even before kodi there was loads of p2p footy and now there's loads of streaming services with their own software to use instead of kodi.
It's to popular to stop now - it will go the way of films/mp3s and they will need to offer a legal alternative at some point.