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Originally Posted by ganthc
According to the blu-ray insider, if you burn something without AACS protection to a bd-r, it will play on players capable of playing bd-r. If you try to burn a AACS protected content on to a bd-r that has no AACS protection on it and try to play that, it won't play.
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And, on top of that, playback of standard BD-R media authored in BDMV is disabled in profile 1.1. If your quote was all this was, there would be no controversary as everyone knew the content your quote from day 1.
See, you are missing the point (which is likely exactly what Talkstr8 was hoping for). If I take an AACS movie and decrypt it using one of the programs available now for Blu-Ray,
it is no longer AACS protected. And therefore, it could be burned and played back in a BD standalone according to your theory.
That is unacceptable to Sony & Fox, the two big DRM-mongering studios. So BDMV playback of non-AACS media has been disabled, period, in newer players & profile 1.1 players. That movie just cracked now WON'T play because all major studio movies are BDMV authored.
Here's the rub. If you have a homemade movie authored in BDMV (meaning, a movie with more complex menus/features than a barebones DVD), you need to purchase an AACS license for $2000 and then distribute it on AACS BD-R media - however expensive THAT will be - to your customers. Otherwise, you are SOL.
So, in the end, small content providers and home video makers get the shaft. The only people that get to tap the full abilities of Blu-Ray are the big studios. Smaller entities will be stuck in "DVD Mode" aka BDAV despite all the features that should be available to them.
As usual, the baby was thrown out with the bathwater. And this weak attempt at copy protection will be so easily cracked that the only person remotely hurt by this will be small businesses and the consumer himself. But we already know by virtue of BD+ Advanced Countermeasure, the overpriced players, and the lack of any coherent mandatory hardware standards that in the world of Blu-Ray the consumer doesn't matter. What matters is that the CE manufacturers get to charge as much as possible for as little gear as possible while the studios get to treat you like a criminal as if you stole the movie you just bought with their excessive DRM measures. And the ironic thing is that studios like Fox are the ones charging $40 for catalog releases that you'd be very lucky to find a theatrical trailer on - who's the criminal there? These same studios are now delivering you a recordable format that is
less functional than the current DVD+/-R standard. Bait... and switch! Can't wait to see what other future gems are in store in the land of BD DRM.
Par for the course with this format.
