another way to think about it...is the versatility of your PC vs your smartphone/HDTV. Your phone & TV have limited controls, & an interface provided by the hardware supplier that limits what you can do (short of being a hacker)
They will make tech so that nobody can copy anything with their TV or their phone. Your music collection is slowly converting from something you download & carry, to something in a cloud. You will lose control of how you manage media.
Piracy will survive, but it will be marginalized to older technology & wont be satisfactory to HD consumers.
in 2010, verizon & google
cut a deal to engineer this dual tier. it was big news back then...