[SamAdams76]

That's being overly paranoid. A government able to modify/restrict what we can stream over the Internet is also a government that can come into your house and seize all your "contraband" DVD/CDs.

In other words, what we watch on television will be the least of our problems if that ever comes to pass.

[a fool in paradise]

Who said GOVERNMENT?

Big Media owns copyright on materials dating back to 1930.

They own it for another few decades due to the extended copyright renewals. That material isn’t free.

Buy it on DVD, you own it and don’t have to pay anyone again to watch it or ask if you can watch it again.