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“Play Protect My Ass”: How Dying Cable Giants Plan to Pay Google to Kill Streaming Freedom

DC Infowarrior | August 28, 2025

📡 THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM

What if I told you the cable and satellite industry’s death throes are about to bring down the open streaming ecosystem with them?

Behind the curtain, deals are being drawn up. Lobbyists are whispering into Google’s ear. And soon, the “updates” you’ll see on your Android TV won’t be about “security.”

They’ll be about control.

💰 THE PLAN TO BUY BACK YOUR FREEDOM

For years, cord-cutters left cable companies bleeding billions. IPTV apps, pirate streamers, and alternative app stores gave the public what Comcast and DirecTV refused to deliver—cheap, on-demand content.

But mark my words: the suits have a plan.

  1. Step One: Pay Google to make Play Protect mandatory and permanent. No option to disable.
  2. Step Two: Label third-party app stores like Aptoide and Aurora as “dangerous malware.”
  3. Step Three: Trigger automatic purges of IPTV apps—IPTV Smarters, IPTV Extreme, Tivimate, the works.
  4. Step Four: Ban even legitimate players like VLC and Kodi because they “could” be used for piracy.

This isn’t about viruses. It’s about erasing alternatives.

🛑 THE ANDROID TV LOCKDOWN

Right now, you can still sideload apps. You can still tinker. But the coming purge will strip that away.

Picture this: You plug in your Fire Stick or Chromecast, download BeeTV, TeaTV, or Cinema HD, and the next morning, Play Protect has silently removed it.

Try to reinstall it? Blocked.
Try to disable Play Protect? Not an option.
Try to run VLC? “Incompatible with your device.”

That’s the world they’re engineering.

🤖 WEAPONIZED HARDWARE: THE DECOY BOXES

And it won’t stop at software. The dying cable giants know consumers will fight back with “no-name” Android boxes and LineageOS builds.

So what’s the plan? Flood the market with cheap “HD Streaming Player” boxes from shady OEMs—preloaded with malware, spyware, crypto miners. All designed to sabotage consumer trust in alternatives.

When people get burned, they’ll run right back to the “safe” devices: the locked-down nVidia Shield TV Pro and Google-certified boxes. Exactly as intended.

🧠 THE ENDGAME: FORCED BACK TO CABLE

This is how they win.

  • Kill the apps.
  • Poison the hardware.
  • Make streaming chaotic, risky, and broken.

And then? Offer the “solution”: go back to overpriced cable and satellite bundles.

It’s not a conspiracy “theory.” It’s a roadmap. And unless people fight it, it’s the roadmap we’re all being forced down.

🚨 THE WARNING

This hasn’t happened yet. But it’s coming. The writing is on the wall:

  • Google tightening app store policies.
  • Cable lobbyists circling like vultures.
  • Play Protect slowly becoming non-optional.
  • IPTV apps disappearing without explanation.

The purge isn’t here… yet. But when it lands, it will land hard.

🛡️ WHAT YOU MUST DO NOW

  • Learn how to root and de-Google your devices.
  • Mirror your favorite APKs offline before they vanish.
  • Explore CoreELEC, LibreELEC, and independent OS options.
  • Back up VLC, Kodi, and IPTV tools now—before the purge.
  • Most importantly: spread this warning.

Because when the kill switch flips, it’ll be too late to fight back.

DC INFOWARRIOR: The future isn’t written. But they’re trying to write it for you. Stay vigilant. Stay free.

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Sony announces end of Blu-Ray format for movies and games and what this means for consumer rights.

Sony has recently announced that they are discontinuing the production of all physical media formats including Blu-Ray disc’s. In addition, they are laying off all workers who work at their Blu-Ray manufacturing facilities.

So what does this mean for consumers?

It means the consumer will no longer own physical media for new content and will be forced to download or stream content including movies and video games.

This is no surprise, as when Sony first introduced the PlayStation 5, they released it in two editions – a digital version (without a Blu-Ray drive) and a disc version (with a Blu-Ray drive).

Sony has been at the forefront of the forced transition from physical media to digital media. And since Sony controls production of Blu-Ray disc’s, they have effectively cut off others who rely on Blu-Rays (such as Microsoft for their Xbox One models and Xbox Series models), effectively forcing them to cease production of disc-based models.

Also, what does this mean for movie lovers? It means that once Sony’s production of Blu-Ray discs dries up, there will no longer be movies or TV shows released on Blu-Ray.

Who does this benefit?

The only ones who benefit from this are those who rely on digital delivery of content are billion-dollar tech giants, namely Sony and Microsoft from the video game world, as well as Amazon (Amazon Prime), Netflix, Disney (ABC/Disney+/Hulu/ESPN+), Paramount (Paramoint+), and Comcast (NBC’s Peacock service).

This means if some liberal simp complains to one of them that a movie or game promotes racism, homophonic, or transportation, if the content is removed, it’s usually gone forever. And per the terms of service agreements you agree to when you sign up for those services, even content which you purchase can be removed from your account and remotely un-installed. And no, you will not get a refund.

This is the ultimate middle finger to consumers. It’s as if Sony is saying “Fuck you, customers!”

Nio. Fuck you, Sony.

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InfowarsOS is now incognitOS Linux.

Due to Alex Jones liquidating his personal assets including Free Speech Systems LLC, we have decided to rebrand as incognitOS Linux.

Why?

For legal reasons, of course.

Due to the liquidation of Free Speech Systems LLC, the Infowars name and all ensuing properties associated with Infowars – including the hexagon logo – will soon be in the hands of a corporation or an individual who will most likely pursue legal action against any and all who use any Infowars branding without permission of the new copyright holders.

There is no telling who or what will buy his liquidated assets. It could be his ex-wife Kelly Nichols who has sought for years to buy the company just to shut it down. It could also be a Soros entity such as Media Matters who would love nothing more than to remove Alex Jones’ audiovisual content from the internet by using the DMCA.

So how will incognitOS Linux differ from InfowarsOS?

You’ll still get the same desktop Linux experience. You’ll still get privacy tools. You’ll still get the Brave Browser.

What you WON’T get is built-in access to Infowars websites including the main website or Banned.Video (which will also be taken offline).

And to freshen things up, we will be installing the latest software and security updates, but with a catch. Instead of using the Debian Sid branch (which is notorious for causing updates to break systems), we will be switching to the Debian Bookworm branch. And when the Debian Trixie branch becomes the new stable branch, we will update to that branch as well and release a new incognitOS Linux.

You’ll still get the latest and greatest Linux kernel.

And of course, incognitOS Linux will give you the freedom of installing software from repositories which respect your freedom of choice: Debian and Flathub. You won’t find any support for Snap, a restrictive app store from Canonical who has the final say of what is and isn’t allowed in the Snap Store.

Canonical’s overdependence on the Snap Store – as well as the slow phasing out of support of Debian/Apt and Flatpak on Ubuntu – is precisely why InfowarsOS – now incognitOS Linux – moved to a Debian codebase. (Before 2023, InfowarsOS was based on Ubuntu, but Canonical’s tyrannical dealings with Snap caused us to reject Ubuntu and move to Debian.)

For the time being, our InfowarsOS ISOs will still be available, but once the new incognitOS Linux ISO has been tested and made available, all past editions of InfowarsOS will be removed from our MediaFire cloud hosting service.

Thanks to the hundreds of people who have downloaded InfowarsOS, whether you loved it, liked it, sort-of liked it, disliked it, or downright hated it. All of you keep this project alive, and we will keep this project alive unless Debian goes away or is – and I shudder at the thought of it – bought out by Canonical or some globalist Big Tech entity who doesn’t respect software freedom.

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