Copying BDs is so easy any idiot can do it, the DRM does nothing but make the process more complicated for the common person.
No, I'm sick of companies making it increasingly difficult for people to use technology for fear of piracy, and then blaming piracy for their crappy movies not selling. Sure, those of use who are tech savvy can figure out that the movie you want to play requires you to go out to the manufacturer's site and grab a file, burn it to a CD or a thumb drive, bring it to the living room and follow some arcane instructions to flash the box, but can your MOM do it? Or your Grandma? They're the ones that couldn't set the clock on the VCR, remember? You trust them to flash a BD player and not brick it?
DVD didn't need a disclaimer on the beginning of the movie saying "Some features of your movie may not work", because it was a well-conceived format with the consumer in mind. BD (and to a lesser extent, HD-DVD, may it RIP) were conceived with accusing the consumer of theft in mind. That's what that little disclaimer really means, "to keep you from stealing this movie, we change the way that copy protection works on a regular basis; you need to go kiss our arses so we feel safe that you aren't ripping us off to play this title".
I can go with the whole protected path thing. I can go with the copy protection in general, even though I think the DMCA is way too heavy handed and actually illegal. But changing the copy protection on a regular basis as PART of the standard? That irks me.
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Copying BDs is so easy any idiot can do it, the DRM does nothing but make the process more complicated for the common person.
No, I'm sick of companies making it increasingly difficult for people to use technology for fear of piracy, and then blaming piracy for their crappy movies not selling. Sure, those of use who are tech savvy can figure out that the movie you want to play requires you to go out to the manufacturer's site and grab a file, burn it to a CD or a thumb drive, bring it to the living room and follow some arcane instructions to flash the box, but can your MOM do it? Or your Grandma? They're the ones that couldn't set the clock on the VCR, remember? You trust them to flash a BD player and not brick it?
DVD didn't need a disclaimer on the beginning of the movie saying "Some features of your movie may not work", because it was a well-conceived format with the consumer in mind. BD (and to a lesser extent, HD-DVD, may it RIP) were conceived with accusing the consumer of theft in mind. That's what that little disclaimer really means, "to keep you from stealing this movie, we change the way that copy protection works on a regular basis; you need to go kiss our arses so we feel safe that you aren't ripping us off to play this title".
I can go with the whole protected path thing. I can go with the copy protection in general, even though I think the DMCA is way too heavy handed and actually illegal. But changing the copy protection on a regular basis as PART of the standard? That irks me.