The media companies have done an end run around the very foundation of how computers work in an attempt to keep from changing their 20th century business model.

The media companies have done an end run around the very foundation of how computers work in an attempt to keep from changing their 20th century business model. All digital data is a copy. It's fundamental to how computers work. That is terribly inconvenient for a business model that prefers to sell physical objects, but as computer science doesn't allow for that, they instead chose to reframe the issue in moral terms ("You wouldn't download a car!") and use tremendous lobbying power to force that view into law. Reasonable people can argue about creators being paid for their work and how digital distribution plays into that, but don't try to take modern technology/physical reality and impose your more convenient business model on it and on everyone else. People going to prison for copying movies is disgusting and immoral.