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Copy Protection Backfires on Blu-ray
An anonymous reader writes "The first two Blu-ray releases to hit the market encrypted with BD+ (an extra layer of protection designed to stave off hackers) are wreaking havoc on innocent consumers. As High-Def Digest reports, this week's Blu-ray releases of 'Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer' and 'The Day After Tomorrow' won't play back at all on at least two Blu-ray players, while load times on other players (including the PS3) are delayed by up to two minutes. 'The most severe problems have been reported on Samsung's BDP-1200 and LG's BH100, which are both said to be incapable of playing back the discs at all. Less catastrophic issues (error messages and playback stutter) have been reported for Samsung's BDP-1000. The discs appear to play back fine on all other Blu-ray players ... Calls placed to both Samsung and LG customer support revealed that both manufacturers are aware of the issue, and that both are working on firmware updates to correct it. Samsung promised a firmware update within 'a couple' weeks, while LG said an update is expected in 3-4 days.'"
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"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Well that's becaus offensive content is filtered in Walmart DVDs. The saves comes from the deleted scenes!
I know most people will consider your comment flamebait or trolling, but it is one of the most accurate statements I've read in a while.
There was no copy protection on Records, tapes, or even early video cassettes and software. It was not until unauthorized copying and distribution became mainstream that companies felt they needed to add copy protection to their products. I don't know if eliminating unauthorized copying would allow companies to go back to unprotected content or not, but I'm sure they companies would like to be able to remove the cost of added copy protection.