I wonder what these companies will do when we will be able to download 700 mb of data in several seconds, like the "internet" that CERN developed for their Boson-Higgs experiment to handle all the data. They are the ones that developed the Internet at the beginning. The article I read talked about remote access of all your data because of high speed transmissions. And today I just read about molecular memory being developed in Russia that can store several petabytes of data on a carbon based chip. These technologies are coming soon within 5 to 10 years so all this fighting over copyrights will be for nothing. It is the same fight that people did with the tobacco companies. Did it stop people from smoking? No. People will find a way to make and distribute copies or backups, no matter what the technology is. The easiest way to avoid all this is to make a copy unto a tape cassette or usb stick and mail it over night. Maybe not high tech but you will get your music or video.