As much as I wish you were right, digital does nothing toward stopping region coding/DRM if we're talking completely legal means. Though, the licensing fees, su

As much as I wish you were right, digital does nothing toward stopping region coding/DRM if we're talking completely legal means. Though, the licensing fees, sure. As much as I'd like to say you're right, I think there are still too many people (here in the US) that just don't have access to the kind of pipes make this feasible. Even considering so many places here that DO have DSL or cable as choices, you have to make the choice of EITHER streaming video OR doing something more intense than web browsing. I was at my cousin's today and ran into the trite example of downloading something on Steam while someone else was trying to watch Hulu. First the quality went to crap, then it just stopped, and Steam was only ("only") pulling 600Kb/s. Sure, there's probably enough of a market to make it a niche business, but you'd have to strike gold to make it turn into a reason for better Internet service. I mean bigger than Netflix. And with ISPs trying their best to turn us into a "pay per GB" society, I don't see physical media going away any time soon.