As far as downloading movies, we're at the same place today as we were with music in the middle of the last decade. You can buy a movie from Amazon Instant Vide

As far as downloading movies, we're at the same place today as we were with music in the middle of the last decade. You can buy a movie from Amazon Instant Video or similar stores and download a file, copy it to any device you want as many times as you want. It's just wrapped in a PlaysForSure DRM wrapper which limits what devices can actually open it. Exactly the same DRM music had before the switch to watermarked MP3s. There's not a lot of pressure to change that because of streaming. Most people are content with streaming the movies they buy instead of downloading. There are nearly no restrictions on streaming. When you buy something from Amazon for example, you can stream it to any number of devices any number of times. You can even stream it to two devices at the same time. The video looks good, you can start watching it immediately, and you don't have to use up 25% of the free space on your tablet to save one movie. People whose primary concern is acquiring a file rather than watching a movie are a niche market. Music in 2005 was a lot different than movies in 2013. A lot more people cared about collecting files, hoarding discographies, and transferring files to portable devices that had no internet connection. It's not the same situation, so that pressure to abandon DRM isn't there now.