Depends on how Big Content is considering their IP. If they're considering it as the CONTENT itself, once I've paid them for that content I should be able to watch it however I see fit. Current DCMA laws technically "prohibit" me from streaming my own DVD across my own network. Untill Universal/MGM/Sony start paying my rent, eff that. I also feel that if I've paid for the content of my DVD and I happen to lose/break it, since they're claiming domain over the content which I paid for and not the delivery/storage system used, I am merely taking steps to recover the property which I paid for by the cheapest means necessary. Breakage of that DVD does not entitle me to lose my right to watch that content.

Yeah, I know, bunch of double speak and smoke and mirrors in what I said, but shifting the perspective on behalf of the "protagonist" is exactly what the production companies are doing. Just playing their game by their rules.