Engh.. As long as they're not censoring content I guess its not a problem if they increase disc protection technology. Piracy never benefited me much personally anyway. I just hope its not an overly complicated feature that'll only to be trumped by clever hackers somewhere down the road.

1 More reason to hope that most people ignore Blu-Ray!

DRM doesn't work for long to prevent piracy and is typically abused to prevent people from using the content they bought in ways they want to.

your rights to actually own your media. Your rights to use what you pay for for whatever you want. Your right to get what you pay for.

More specifically, your rights to make a legal backup of your media. Your rights to watch/listen to media on any software/hardware/products rather than just those that Company X approves. Your right to an open source implementation of your media player. The right to know that you don't have spyware/rootkits installed on your computer.

These are just some of the rights you are cheering the removal of. 

 how about the right of intelligence.

What the hell is your point? I'm serious here, I don't really understand what you're saying about "right of intelligence". Are you insinuating that I am unintelligent because I think it's ridiculous to cheer people attempting to take away your rights? Basically, would it be unintelligent for me to argue with someone who says "Good news everybody! The American Government has taken away the population's right to free speech! Now they can put people they don't like in jail and then they'll be able to increase productivity through fear!". I'm sorry I can't cheer the removal of rights.

I know it has DRM, that's why I don't buy anything with DRM. Most people are ignorant, and purchase it anyway, meaning that it becomes the standard format and the only way I can get "unprotected" movies is by pirating them. I'm not using ignorance later to whine about it. I am saying now BEFORE people buy into this crap that they shouldn't. It appears YOU'RE the one that purchased into this technology, so you'll be the one bitching later when you get bitten in the arse by it.

Since you clearly know about the pitfalls, then you're the one who appears to be lacking intelligence from my side. 

This is cool news.

 Its their product, they can add what ever the hell they want.  They can make what ever they want, they can put any restricions they want on it.

If customers dont like it they wont buy it and it will fail, forcing them to change it. 

 They sure as hell are not taking away any of your rights, its YOUR choice to buy it or not.  A person buying means they agree and accpet the terms of the product.

 how would it bite me in the ass, i cant copy it ?

 God, there's nothing that pissed me off more that dorks like you.  You're not made because you can't make backups, you're mad because you can't pirate things and take money away from people providing the content. I don't know so much about movies, but games take an incredibly large amount of money and time to create and anytime you pirate something, you're taking money away from those people that made the thing.

Go make yourself useful and play in the middle of a busy street.

I will gladly give up the right for legal back ups (which I never use anyway) for less piracy which is just using people's hard made product for free while the rest of us pay...

And putting this right on the same level as the right to Free Speech is fuckin ridiculous. 

 theres a difference between free speech and stealing a company's profits but stealing their product.