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I would guess that their seed cap is looking for payback, or they realized that the lifetime plans are going to put them out of business.
They're running really high operating costs, live service (that no one wants) with commercials (no one wants) trying to compete with people that could stand up that same piece of content from pirate source in two minutes with no ads.
It'd be different if they just cached tvdb, epg, and provided low rez proxies, and kept basic features, they could live for a really long time.
They can't pay for the mess they're making trying to make more money :)