Considering this to be more of the same from Ruined, with his action line being "Blu-ray and the ps3 are evil and should be avoided, hd-dvd and MS are angels", I went to my manual for the HD-A2. Lo and behold, I quickly found this little gem in the manual on pg 46 at the bottom:
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NOTE:
If you select to accept "cookies", the HD DVD internet services you use may record or track information about your use of the player and/or those sites. If you do not choose to allow cookies, some or all features of a site may not properly function.
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So it appears that this was the case with hd-dvd and you had NO problems using (and you even paraded) online content there. It is now standard fare for data collection to determine if studios want to invest money/effort into making online content, find out whether they can market other movies/products to you, or just to get a headcount of who is using the service.
Yes, I'm sure that the above could be used to track down pirates, but I laugh, because somehow that really only seems to scare you in particular on these forums.
