Letting people access content they want to see is killing the industry.

Why would I care about industry? If something would be killing me, would "the industry" care?

They provide the product, I pay; they don't, I'm not paying; and the package never includes caring.

That's a fine attitude. My comment was mostly sarcastic: pirates already provide everything for free, yet the content creators refuse to let people pay for their product (country limitations, format limitations, drm, etc.) Then they whine about how they're losing money and blame the pirates, when it's really their fault for not selling their product at all.

They do let people pay to access their content - it's just done in a price discriminatory fashion. If they started offering content online they'd lose cable customers who pay more than casual web users.