[DanBC]

> Shouldn't a content provider have choice as to how you get to watch something?

Yes. But when they make bad choices good people (who want to pay for the content) will mention those bad choices. And bad people (who don't want to pay for the content) will just pirate, sometimes using the bad choice as a justification.

> Fox gets money from you in a number of different ways

I don't know how it works so maybe I get this next part wrong, but limiting the ways that people can pay you is not a way to maximise income.

> Plus it stops the majority of armchair hackers from putting it up on youtube etc

I don't understand what you're saying; plenty of on-demand cable only content is available on torrents. Technical restrictions cause inconvenience to paying customers but have little to no affect on pirates.