I see your Battlefield Earth and raise you one Manos: The Hands of Fate.

Attackers can reset connections last year?!?
Why didn't anyone tell me this before?

Though their motivations may not be so philanthropic, at least consumer electronics corporations are on the side of the people like you and I. After all, they know that consumers will not purchase crippled, copy-protected products. Hopefully, this will result in a somewhat more balanced result when laws are passed. Call me cynical, but I feel that the Hollywood lobby's advantage is quite large and the laws will likely get passed.