I have a feeling that Iks going down for good is actually going to be good for us, in the long run.
I believe that during peak times or during ppv events so many people would be watching that the codeword requests would essentially be ddos'ing the server. Packets would drop, requests would go unfulfilled, and you'd get freezing. That's why there are like 11 server ip's, and even then they'd get hammered every weekend.
When iks goes away, the data center stops getting ddos'd and traffic requests and fulfillment can then be better managed.
...or so I hypothesize anyway, lol.