Take a movie like "The Matrix," the 1999 sci-fi thriller ... When they tried the exercise over Internet2, the movie downloaded in about 30 seconds. [...] "This will come into our homes," he promises. "Existing cable and even the fastest form of DSL will hook up very well to Internet2." But when? Van Houweling won't set a date. "Look how fast the original Internet took off. There's no reason to think that this won't be implemented even faster. I will say that 10 years from now, the Internet world will be unrecognizable to us today"

So that's great and all and we will have this wonderful bandwidth floating around, but how are they gonna get it to our homes? Oh yeah and that example about downloading The Matrix in 30 seconds is probably a big part of why the MPAA is antsy about things.