awk, I remember a debate between the leaders of Silicon Valley and Hollywood/TV/Music industry before the Hollings Committee, which was as revealing as anything I've seen about the development of a distributed property infrastructure. At the time, Intel had mixed feelings about this type of infrastructure. Yet now they are at the forefront.
So as you say, maybe Hollywood has contributed to progress in finding a solution. I would be surprised if Hollywood has not also had to make concessions itself.
Nevertheless, I am deliberately taking a cautious approach here. Jack Valenti is himself hesitant with new technology, and extremely jealous of the movie makers' revenue stream. And my conclusions are based upon that sense as much as anything else. I don't mind being shown to be wrong!