HOLLYWOOD VERSUS PROGRESS: Hollywood’s Piracy Fears Turn Potentially Useful Product Into A $4,000 Brick.

Instead of a seamless, instant experience, you’re back in the position of hunting for the purchased discs you already “conveniently” stored on the hard drive. . . .

Now, Hollywood has been forced to accept this device, nearly a decade since it first began its attack. The number of licensed movies available for download barely clears 2,000 titles. There may be more to come, but it seems unlikely to be fully embraced by the same studios who spent 10 years fighting it. And who’s to say that any licenses obtained won’t be rescinded in the future, punching holes in your digital collection and putting you back in the position of hunting down Blu-ray discs you stashed away after burning them to Kaleidescape’s drive? It’s not as though that sort of “you don’t really own your digital purchases” bulls**t has never occurred before.