[pvg]

studio pressure

A better way to think of this might be 'voluntary commercial agreements entered by gigantic corporations'. The results are some mildly annoying misfeatures inflicted on consumers (the 'dystopia' in the GP comment) and wide, cheap, on-demand availability of unfathomable quantities of digital content (the 'utopia' we actually live in).

[BryantD]

Concur. I wasn't really happy with my phrasing but it seemed like OK shorthand; I like yours.