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.""

Comments

Re:Get some priorities!!!!

[psyon1]

20,000 dead people have no effect on me... sorry.

No Surprise

[Master of Transhuman]

Corporate policy everywhere these days (these days? Hell, since forever!) is that the customer is "the enemy". How can we extract all the customer's money while still preventing him from using our product, which is shit anyway, all under the guise of "intellectual property" and "support costs".

This is what you get when you have state-sponsored entities run by power-hungry fucktards.

The cyberpunk future of corporations running the world with an iron fist isn't the future - it's the past, the present, and the future.

Chimps like Bush are just the front men, or alternatively, wannabes using their political and military clout to cut their slice of the spoils from the rich.

Like in New Orleans and Watts, when people have nothing to lose as a result of some mess, they wake up to this and start shooting cops and burning down corporate buildings. Not effective, of course - you need to shoot politicians and their supporters, not buildings.

Better yet, build the tech to kill them all quietly and secretly. That's the Transhuman way.

Have a nice day.

Re:I'm sorry dave

[Lord Kano]

"Gosh honey, I shouldn't have tried to play that Fahrenheit 9/11 Blu-Ray disk. GD Patriot Act 3."

The moment we have "smart machines" they'll shut themselves down when you try to play F-911 or Slim Witman albums.

No intelligent being wants to be subjected to crap.

LK