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Originally Posted by dugpa
The difference is you can turn cookies off and thus turn off the tracking. BD-Live doesn't give you that option. It's the choice that matters. In fact, I have cookies turned off on my A1 and have never had a problem with online content.
See, it wasn't that hard to figure out.  |
I don't think we ever saw the full realization of what hd-dvd could offer via their online content. Who can say that if hd-dvd had won, they wouldn't have basically made those online content only able to work with cookies. So then your choice would have been have online content and let us track your data, or don't allow the cookies and not be able to watch the online content. Pretty much the same choice you have now with blu-ray. And I will add that even if you turned it off, the manual actually instructs people to turn cookies on. The note was there as a warning that if you didn't allow the cookies, they wouldn't be able to track you (which is questionable as well). You called their "bluff" on the content not working, but there are plenty of people that probably followed the manual's instructions and allowed for cookies to be used. As such, they were tracked. Your choice on whether you want to view bd-live material is the same way. If you don't want to be tracked, then don't watch the material. In answer to your statement above, the "compensation" you are getting for being tracked is to be able to watch whatever online material is being provided. Perhaps it's an exclusive commentary from the director or whatever. You have a choice just the same there as well.
The spector of bricked players, aka FUD, has been put out there since the format war's inception. Now that the format war is over, that same boogeyman is being thrown out there all the same (and still by the same people
). I'm with Derb, in that we have yet to see bd+ rear its ugly head and start shutting down players. I just don't think it's going to happen to citizens that are obeying the DMCA. For those that are trying to circumvent it, it is possible that they will be in for surprise on that.