What you got from what I wrote was that I want my digital media for free, and you respond with the mantra of passive consumerism: "Shut up and be grateful for what trickles down."?

What's always amazed me about that attitude of yours is that I'm desribing, and you're tacitly endorsing, a broken marketplace, a perversion of a free market in which the buyer is merely a passive consumer of the output of the sellers.

Here's how you describe the marketplace for digital media:

...movie studios, streaming video sources, DVD makers, and probably many others. There are licensing issues, bootlegging issues, copyright issues, conflicts of interest between different markets, and trying to create new markets without killing any of the several geese laying the golden eggs. That they can kludge it out at all is a miracle.

In other words, Corporate America--"they"--will work it all out amongst themselves, and tell us how it's going to be. You didn't mention the consumers anywhere in that cast of characters.

You'd make the perfect spokesman for the one percent, Tom.