[dmaul1114]

It's not control over content, it's keeping people from getting copyrighted material without paying for it.

I don't give a crap about publishers. If anything, I hope the digital revolution will KILL publishers, record labels etc. as authors, artists etc. can cheaply distribute their material on their own and get much more of the profits--which the deserve as the content creators!

I care about the content creators getting paid for their work. And the fact is, people don't illegally download books, music etc. as they hate publishers and record labels. They do it because people suck and they just want to get stuff for free.

Thus we need a system to help authors, musicians etc. get paid for their work, vs. having people pirate it. As even if publishers die, people will still pirate books rather than buying it from the authors website.

And for my last post, I'm not thrilled about an all digital, all streaming media future. But that's just where the media industry is going in the digital era. But at the same time, some of that is stubborn nostalgia I think

I have 300+ movies on DVD/Blu Ray. I seldom watch them as mainly watch discs from Netflix and stream movies on Netflix Instant Watch as I'd usually rather watch something for the first time. So in the end, I'd probably be better off not buying copies of stuff and just relying on Netflix. And the same is probably true for books, music etc.--as long as your fears aren't true and we don't end up with censorship, controlled selection etc.