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I never heard that... but yeah it was nonsense.

Afterall, not only does Sony not have that big of a share of Blu-ray that they could dictate that. Microsoft makes money off of almost every Blu-ray sold.

They were a partner in the development of AACS.  (Along with Sony...)

Which is Blu-rays standard copyright protection scheme.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Access_Content_System

They don't make a lot of money off of it... (I mean hell, even sony doesn't make a lot of money off Blu-ray) but... the companies are a lot more intertwined then you would think.