That's kind of a weird attitude. You get on your high horse about a country which you claim is more ruled by it's people.. yet you eagerly consume the content which is produced by a country apparently ruled by it's corporations?
Maybe you should consider that the reason the US is able to produce so much of everything- whether it be tv/movies/social media/technologies such as apple/android/windows is, well, because it is a little bit controlled by the corporations? Yet because it's basically all digital, you are able to sit in your bubble and condemn the US while reaping all the benefits.
I don't disagree that the US has a lot of problems, and I would love for this country to move WAY more toward socialist politics that actually HELP everyone. So go ahead and condemn the US, but the whole world is way better off technologically at the expense of our fairly extreme capitalistic system. If nothing was digital and everything was physical, and we had extreme advances only physically because of a country ruled more by corporations than people, somehow I think you would have a different attitude. I think people would be lining up to get into the country, even though there would be a lot of downsides. But because this is all digital, you can just take it all and then laugh at how backwards things are.
I don't know, just take a moment to look at what you use on a day-to-day basis and think if you used nothing but what was produced in your country how your life would be different. I'm not sitting here saying the US has done everything- so please don't take it like that. But since we are talking about media and technology, and you even saying you can't legally subscribe to HBO etc.. well, HBO is a US company and everything produced here. Why should you be able to access it? Do you sit there and say "this is so unfair US didn't setup a Disney World here!". Yet, because it's digital you are automatically entitled to it apparently.
I know I went a bit extreme, and I'm playing more devils advocate here. I just think the US is looked at very unfairly these days because you can use everything we do but you get the benefits of a more socialist culture.
I pay for Netflix I can't legally subscribe to HBO, Showtime, etc
Hence, i download anything not on Netflix. Legally. Because i live in a country which is ruled by its people and not its corporations.