I wonder how long it will be if ever that BD association just gives up created new forms of BD+. Every change they make may require a firmware update on a player. Consumers are not going to except that every time they play a new disc they must spend 30mins updating their player. Heck were complaining about the upsurd (~30-90secs) it takes to start a movie. DRM will always be a cat and mouse game with the circumvention.
all in all a big waste of time for all parties involved.
BD+ doesn't always require a firmware change. It can patch into certain functionality on the machine and deny playback too based on tests it performs, e.g. checking a firmware version from memory based on its signature. It can even do timing critical tests which would be hard to emulate. But it doesnt update firmware.
More likely is that studios will implement BD+ (only some do at the moment) and they'll start aggressively switching keys and schemes so that SlySoft has great difficulty keeping up. They're probably getting away with it now because there may only be a couple of BD+ protected disks every week. It will be interesting to see if they can keep up as the number of releases and the way they are protected increases.
all in all a big waste of time for all parties involved. =====================================================
You're missing the point Mitchell.
It's a huge multi-million $ gravy train for those involved.
'The industry' knows it isn't going to mean a thing to the real large commercial 'pirates'.
They know the only people this will inconvenience are the paying punters. As they ramp the DRM up it's the paying 'owners' that are the only ones who start to encounter endless update and compatability problems.
But then a 'paying owner' is a concept they want to leave far behind anyways.
You only buy the right to view (in the USA) you don't actuially 'own' jack sh!t. Check your EULA (didn't you know you are deemed to have agreed to one?)
Land of the free my a$$, land of the corporate slave more like.......and you largely let it all happen without a word of protest.
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I wonder how long it will be if ever that BD association just gives up created new forms of BD+. Every change they make may require a firmware update on a player. Consumers are not going to except that every time they play a new disc they must spend 30mins updating their player. Heck were complaining about the upsurd (~30-90secs) it takes to start a movie. DRM will always be a cat and mouse game with the circumvention.
all in all a big waste of time for all parties involved.
my 2 cents
Mitchell
Amen to that.
BD+ doesn't always require a firmware change. It can patch into certain functionality on the machine and deny playback too based on tests it performs, e.g. checking a firmware version from memory based on its signature. It can even do timing critical tests which would be hard to emulate. But it doesnt update firmware.
More likely is that studios will implement BD+ (only some do at the moment) and they'll start aggressively switching keys and schemes so that SlySoft has great difficulty keeping up. They're probably getting away with it now because there may only be a couple of BD+ protected disks every week. It will be interesting to see if they can keep up as the number of releases and the way they are protected increases.
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Mitchell
all in all a big waste of time for all parties involved.
=====================================================
You're missing the point Mitchell.
It's a huge multi-million $ gravy train for those involved.
'The industry' knows it isn't going to mean a thing to the real large commercial 'pirates'.
They know the only people this will inconvenience are the paying punters.
As they ramp the DRM up it's the paying 'owners' that are the only ones who start to encounter endless update and compatability problems.
But then a 'paying owner' is a concept they want to leave far behind anyways.
You only buy the right to view (in the USA) you don't actuially 'own' jack sh!t.
Check your EULA
(didn't you know you are deemed to have agreed to one?)
Land of the free my a$$, land of the corporate slave more like.......and you largely let it all happen without a word of protest.