[techguyone]

XBMC stood for X Box Media Centre and was originally for the x-box strangely enough.

It's far from a pirates paradise, like torrents really. sure you *can* use it for nefarious purposes. BUT for every add-on that's *dodgy* shall we say. Notwithstanding the fact that streaming within the EU is entirely legal at the moment.

There's add-ons that are perfectly ok in every sense of the word. For example I regularly use a Google Music add-on.

I'll also point out that the android boxes (and even the more limited devices like fire sticks & Fire TV boxes) are essentially screen-less tablets, so they do all that a tablet would.

you know legal stuff like, playing games, browsing, Facebook etc.

There's no such thing as a *Kodi Box*
If I wanted to view pirated content on any device of mine, i wouldn't actually need any more than a web browser... or a non google play app, the boxes certainly don't depend on Kodi for anything, at the end of the day Kodi is simply another application running in the android OS.