That’s not true at all. Why wouldn’t those rules have applied to Lala, Simplify, etc. besides, what difference does it make if it was on a external hard drive or not? And Google is doing a cloud service. Apple may very well be set to. They will lose badly, if they don’t.
You have much to learn about DCMA, copyright law, and digital distribution technology.
But then again perhaps you intend to retain your sanity.