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The TV and motion picture industry are only recently having to deal with purely digital, high-quality copies of their products. Until recently, it has been easy for them to tie their products to venues (theaters, TV and copy-protected webcasts) or physical media (DVDs), which allows them to exercise some control over the dissemination of copywritten files. But as storage capacity grows, allowing high-quality digital files to be swapped media-free, this will be more and more of a problem for them.
Publishers would love to keep you tied to physical media for the same reason. Failing that, they fall back on venues... or, in this case, devices... to control dissemination.
Deal with the problem of dissemination... in other words, copy all you want for yourself, but you can't redistribute to someone else... and you'd solve about all of the publishers' problems (as well as those of the music and video industries).
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