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Blu-Ray To Punish Users for Modifying Hardware
datemenatalie writes "As reported on Engadget, consumers should expect punishment for tinkering with their Blu-ray players, as many have done with current DVD players, for instance to remove regional coding. The new, Internet-connected and secure players will report any "hack" and the device can be disabled remotely. As the article asks, "Are they talking about PVP-OPM techniques and rejected HDMI keys, or something else far more sinister? Because apparently "A hacked player is any player that is doing something it's not supposed to do," which open to a pretty fair amount of interpretation--most of which egregious.""
I'm befuddled as to why the government would shut down your Blu-Ray player for watching Fahrenheit 9/11.
If the government were anything near as bad as the dipshits who watch and actually believe Mike "I'm a big fat un-American lard ass" Moore's propagarbage think it is, then they'd be expecting a covey of black helicopters bearing NWO agents to swoop down upon their residence, blast the door open with detcord, enter with their laser-sighted, silenced, submachine guns and taser them, ripping off their tinfoil hats, brainwashing them with sonic lasers and mind-control rays before taking them outside, making them eat the broken pieces of the Fahrenheit 9/11 Blu-Ray disc and then summarily executing them before shipping them off to Gitmo to be tortured and detained without benefit of legal council or trial while being forced to wear panties (which happen to be nowhere near as effective as tinfoil hats) on their heads.