What do you get that from?
I mean, it surely couldn't be a DVD with it's onerous DRM scheme that Hollywood put forth with the DVD format could it?
Hollywood has always had DRM, and likely always will. Certain companies will work to circumvent it, and most law abiding citizens are completely unaware of DRM and that it exists when they buy and play their movies.
It's a cop out arguement - it's BS. DVD had it, HD DVD had it, BD has it, whatever comes next will have it. And only those who are actively intent in breaking copyright law seem to be upset. I buy movies, my player plays them back, what in the world does the DRM on the disc have to do that would bug me in the least? What does it do that bugs YOU?
I'll tell you what bugs me, about this whole DRM.
The HDCP codes have been a fiasco. I think having equipment obsolete 18 months after purchase is just not on. I object to having my gear have to make wobbly handshakes between units, at the behest of those absolute sewers in Hollywood. Gear should connect one way. This over complicates gear with NO increase in performance, and adds significant cost. If you are a manufacturer it is a bigger nightmare.
I object to this regions nonsense, on DVD's. This creates havoc for no purpose whatever when you have a lot of overseas relatives. That scheme is really daft.
I object to all the DRM built into Vista. I won't use it and don't. Microsoft at the behest of the Hollywood crowd have come up with a system that takes a huge amount of processing power and energy checking that you are not a pirate. If I were to use the Vista operating system in my workstation, it would keep disconnecting my asio drivers, assuming I'm a pirate which I'm not. And I could go on and on about the vices of Vista because of DRM.
Getting to BD, I don't want a system were they keep changing the rules. I want a system were I buy a disc, it plays anywhere in the world, and will always on that type of player. I don't want changing codes, wobbly handshakes and Internet connections, to be able to play what I buy. What if someone decides they don't want the Internet? That should not stop them playing discs they buy.
I'm not the only one who objects to all this. Steve Jobst was the first to say its time to roll down the curtain on DRM and now Bill Gates agrees.
You seem to be sympathetic to the wants of a bunch of very depraved people in Hollywood. Its time for everybody, including the manufacturers, to just refuse to build this nonsense in their equipment and stop paying the exorbitant license fees. And to top it off it serves no purpose whatever. The pirates always beat it, the legitimate consumer pays, and is inconvenienced. We do need a federal ban on DRM, and that's no cop out.
You need to stop advocating for a bunch of juvenile, vile depraved people, who populate Hollywood. They are vile, perfectly vile.