Yeah, I think if the article was written today it would just be an exercise in spinning up the typical Usenet piracy stack with Plex or Jellyfin. What I do thi

Yeah, I think if the article was written today it would just be an exercise in spinning up the typical Usenet piracy stack with Plex or Jellyfin. What I do think was true back then and is even more true today is that this kind of effort just isn’t worth it. Antenna channels absolutely suck except for the increasingly rare sports events that haven’t been moved to pay TV. And that sucky experience gets even worse if you don’t live in a large metro area close to the broadcast antennas. Television isn’t even enjoyable enough to go through all this effort. I’d rather just not watch TV at all. And honestly, I think a significant number of former TV customers may have made that exact choice - not just cutting the cord but finding other activities entirely. Gaming comes to mind, which I immensely prefer over basically any television show. Another little note, I think a lot of cable and streaming providers have done a good job resolving the issue of streaming bitrate being inferior to antenna bitrate. My local OTA market has a grand total of one 4K demo channel and everything else is broadcasting at a bitrate that appears inferior to modern streaming platforms.