Cable companies and governments can't fight the future sure the can delay it, but they will fail !
As much as i wish that was true, the reality is those companies own most of the internet infrastructure the average user uses to connect online and demands made by agency's such as the NSA and CSIS along with multi country alliances such as Five Eyes (FEVY) they can pretty much stop what the want if they really wanted to, legal or not...
when things were more low keyed they may have been aware but action probably didnt justify the cost, but all thats changed now as everyone and their dogs are selling boxes claiming free tv... can't kick someone in the nad's and expect them to not re-act and we already got legislator just looking for reasons to justify snooping on people...