It appears to be a de-facto requirement for these large media distributors to have automated copyright enforcement on them these days.

This would have been completely ridiculous a decade ago, but now it's all over the place, and no doubt will continue to grow. How long until it becomes a de-facto requirement for large hosting providers to have automated copyright enforcement on all outgoing streams from their data centers? How long until it becomes a de-facto requirement for ISPs to have automated copyright enforcement on all incoming streams, or GPUs to do it on content while it's playing, or...?

I'm afraid it's likely to cause negative knee-jerk reactions just bringing it up, but I have to say that The Right to Read is becoming less ridiculous all the time: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html