said by Lazy Senior:I would suggest you blame the content providers for that not Mediacom.
Not when the provider (insert cable company here) is responsible for providing the equipment.
If this was flagged 'do not copy', that would be a whole different issue, and yeah, it would be the content provider. Comcast does this as do a few others from what I can tell
As far as storing things on a PC, well, I wish I had the time to sit and watch everything that looked 'interesting'. There are times I'm months behind (sometimes a whole season) on TV and can just sit and blow through it over the summer, hence a 3TB storage drive dedicated to strictly TV