> There are outstanding distribution licenses with many companies for many different parts of the world which can't just be wiped away so this service can just spring to life.

Copyright is not a right, it s a privilege given to promote the creation of new works in exchange for reasonable access to that work.

Hollywood could easily lobby the government about their contracts not being in the spirit of copyright and that they need to be wiped clean in the interest of the American people.

Instead, they lobby to reduce the reasonable access even further. Forcing people into pirating even more.

I guess they know they have a better chance changing the law for 300 million people than to change it for a couple of other corporations. Pretty sad, really.