Maybe a similar thing needs to happen with movies? It won't. Consumers got the level of control over their music library that they did as an accident of timin

Maybe a similar thing needs to happen with movies? It won't. Consumers got the level of control over their music library that they did as an accident of timing. The quality of the popular home format (CD) was very good, home computers came with the hardware to read them, the power of home computing and network speeds were just good enough for audio piracy. So music piracy became ubiquitous before the pieces were in place for DRM to stop it. Video piracy only hit big at the tail end of that window, so the market doesn't expect as much flexibility when buying video as with music. Every year we're stuck with more and more DRM technology coming standard in the products we buy and software we use.