If it were easy for their customers to simply download and save all the movies they're interested in over the space of a month, and then unsubscribe for a few months until the next time they see movies they're interested in, then the entire model would break down - less revenues received, and more money spent on bandwidth per month.
That theory is already debunked. If it were true, Netflix and all the other streaming services would have already failed. Since it is tremendously simple to just hop on over to TPB and grab whatever you want in whatever quality you want it in. People want to pay a reasonable price to have this stuff available legally.
I will take death over an 8'x6' room.
That's the size of my cubicle you insensitive CLOD!
Dude! Your cubicle is huge! Envy^3.
In addition, the estimated costs have got to be a factor of 10 too optimistic. 60 billion dollars? For something constructed of tens of thousands of miles of superconducting cable and a structure made to aerospace engineering tolerances that is 1000 miles long? Even 600 billion sounds optimistic for something that large.
Not to mention that the idea is that the entire tube holds a vacuum, which buoys it up, and it's held DOWN with tethers. How do you even construct that? There are no cranes to LEO. Even if you put them in place, and empty out the gas slowly so that it rises (without coming to a sudden stop at the end that breaks a tether), each segment is probably hundreds of pounds of metal. Imagine being miles in the air, wrestling with an enormous hunk of metal that's tied to the earth in what you can only hope is the right position, in order to get the end to line up with the last piece...
Well, okay, it sounds like a heck of an exciting job. But it also sounds like it could go wrong so terribly easily...
I don't think you quite understood this. the tube is not elevated because of the vac. Its elevated by magnetic levitation. the vac is to avoid all the problems associated with going 25,000mph inside a tube filled with air.
Work expands to fill the time available. -- Cyril Northcote Parkinson, "The Economist", 1955