The problem with the hacked satellite and cable boxes was...you were still ultimately using their hardware and sources, and it was technically a cat and mouse game.
With a Kodi box, they're looking at trying to fight the entire internet, not just a handful of hacked hardware
on their own network. We all know that fighting the internet as a whole will
NEVER work. It's a lost cause that they would be stupid to even attempt, although given the acts of desperation that the likes of Rogers and Bell have been known to stoop to, I expect they may try, but it'll be laughably futile for them. The cat is very much out of the bag now.
The "letter from your ISP" issue, if it ever becomes one (it isn't now) is 100% negated by using a VPN - nobody sees what's coming through your pipes that way and they've no idea if you're streaming media on a kodi box, or just have a hardon for Linux and are downloading the latest distro on a daily basis.
One thing is for sure, the cable companies are going to cut their own throats continuing to gouge people $100-$200/month for cable - the way the Kodi boxes are rapidly maturing it's only a matter or another year or so before they reach the point where they're going to work exactly the same as a Cable/Sat box (with a nice guide and everything), be reliable, and have plenty of HD streams...either for free, or perhaps $10-$20/month. When that happens and the "tinker factor" is no longer there (ie, "it just works, all the time, every time"), customers will flock to them...even the geriatrics and technophobes who would otherwise never be able to reliably operate them at their current maturity level will switch. Who in their right mind would continue to pay $100/month to Rogers when you can pay $20 instead?
When that happens, the cable/sat companies are going to start hemorrhaging customers so fast it's going to be a bloodbath.
They are going to HAVE to change at that point.
It is inevitable.
