http://gear.ign.com/articles/798/798054p1.html

There goes the 3rd-world market...

 Whose money wasn't going to the companies anyway...

I thought the companies also made money off selling the players? 

Anyhow, if the Chinese have anything to do with it (and they will - they always have something to do with it), Blu-ray will still eventually be cracked, and Blu-ray will then become the de-facto pirating platform by virtue of content, and Blu-ray will then spread across Asia, Africa and South America - and the money still won't go to the companies anyway!

Well, this is interesting. But here's a reminder: Rootkits. Please don't let it be screwing too much with hardware to the point of breaking.

Also, the stealing community, while not likely downloading too many 30 gig Blue Ray movies yet, just loves another challenge. Way to waste money in developing another security measure to give those who like breaking security measure's joy.

 The people who make the players make the money there, not the people that make the movies.  The people that make the movies can't make money if you don't buy the movies (legally).

I prefer the term "pirates", but anyhow...

This is the thing: Back in the NES days, the pirates had literally reduced cartridges to nothing more than the value of the ROM inside. You could literally trade a pirated Super Mario 3 for, say, Gradius and the pirates would pay you money simply because Super Mario 3 had more ROM.

Fast forward two generations to the PS. In the US, where piracy back then was not that big an issue, in Asia Sony actually came out with special "black surface" CDs that were not only completely incompatible with the US version, it took a lot of reengineering from the pirates to actually read and burn the content from these discs. The process took around six months, but it was also eventually cracked.

DVD with CSS? Some Norwegian teenager (If I recall correctly) cracked it with De-CSS.

When the Xbox launched, it was eventually cracked by another Chinese hacker/pirate, who later on went to work for Microsoft, specifically to show (educate?) them how he went about circumventing all the security measures.

Windows XP with WGA? Vista? Chalk two up for the pirates.

Wii? DS? Copy protection for these two are a joke.

PSP? Despite numerous firmware updates, it still runs bootleg, and of course, pirated games.

No matter what kind of copy protection mechanism used, someone eventually gets around to cracking it. It's only a temporary setback, and I don't see how this will change with Blu-ray.

HD-DVD has already been cracked and out in the wild. 

Avast ye land lubbers!

Pirates was a horrible movie, so I refuse to associate it with anything. Well, Pirates of the Caribbean. Pirates the porn movie was actually funny.


And really, when anti piracy measures have implications that impact the hardware of users who buy the Blue Ray faithfully and legally, supporting everyone, you get nothing but good press. Right? Right?

wtf?

These companies are eroding your rights and you are calling this GOOD news? Out of some crazy Sony loyalty I assume? You guys are nuts!

 It's good news for Sony... Eroding my right to what exactly?