Netflix for Macs - Freeing the Net

Okay, I downloaded the Microsoft (eww) Silverlight Video plugin and I finally can watch Heroes Season 1. In fact now I can watch all three seasons on Netflix. With school, watching TV has become a lower priority for me, I've increased my cable bill (wrong move) in order to have  a DVR (should have gone to Tivo). I'm learning my lesson. I've never subscribed to HBO, Showtime, or Skinemax, because I never cared to have them. I did want a DVR so I increased my bill because at the time I couldn't afford to purchase one. Again that was a bad move on my part. Now with Netflix partnering up with Tivo I need to stop paying for digital cable it's too costly and I don't need all those channels. Considering that I watch pretty much everything else on the net. I just need a device (Tivo) to hook up to the Internet to get at all the video being streamed there. It is interesting is that this is exactly what Hollywood didn't want to happen. That they would lose control over content and it would be streamed via the Internet. They can thank the cable companies and the government sponsored duopolies that has been created for them. Because they won't charge a fair price for channels and allow ala carte purchasing of channels people are deciding that they don't need the cable companies and Hollywood's schedule of you watch it when they say to with stupid commercials that have nothing to do with what I do buy or watch on TV. Hollywood brought back Knightrider, why? What is it about a car that fights crime that make people want to watch it? The science is bogus and doesn't make any sense. At least when Sci-Fi brought back Battlestar Galactica, it was completely retooled and not the same show. Knightrider added more people but it's the same stupid show. Now Sascha Segan has the right idea. He was able to cut his cable bill and I'm looking to do the same. I can't leave cable because I like my Broadband Internet Connection more than DSL. I won't change that anytime soon. Not until the FCC and United States get off their ass and come up with a plan to create free or low-cost wireless Internet access. I've stated it before in this article . Here is a highlight: 

The solution to all of this is very simple. WiFi - not the kind that other companies are putting into place but the ones the consumer do. Think on this, you have a wireless router, most people are buying them because they like their Internet in any room. The range on them is always increasing. How about a router with a firewall, web server, e-mail server, and DNS server built in. Then open those routers to each other but have the firewall deny access from and external source to the home computer that is connected to the router. Protect the consumer but allow the routers to route information between themselves. If the Internet is nothing more then a series of interconnected computer systems so that bits of information can be routed in any direction through the computers to reach a destination then why were backbones created, speed, by creating more centralized and larger backbones it increased the speed but limited the transmission of those bits. With a consumer WiFi system that is fast the bits are freed and the individual routers will route the bits not through the telecoms backbones but through the neighbors system. This way you recreate the original Internet of interconnected systems. If you can have a neighborhood of consumers to interconnect this way then the back bones are only needed for distances between the neighborhoods but with metered access. Consumers would then start pushing for and hardware vendors creating products with a wider range so that consumers don't have to depend on the back bones. In fact it why would we need ISPs at all?

I still believe that eventually this is going to happen. People are going to become fed up with Cable/Phone companies and revert back to an earlier time of the Internet. Call it the DIY Internet.