Managed Copy Enabled Blu-Rays Coming Soon
Posted 11/07/09 at 06:39:20 PM by Justin Kerr
The first Managed Copy enabled Blu-Ray disks will be hitting store shelves soon, unfortunately, it will be well ahead of any hardware that can make use of it. For those that haven’t heard of Managed Copy, it is a system that allows you to make legal copies of Blu-Ray disks, but spawned versions of the content are very heavily protected by DRM. Any user trying to play the copied version needs to contact the studios DRM servers which decide if you can watch it, and even how many times it can be copied.
Dedicated Blu-Ray hardware isn’t expected to implement this feature anytime soon, but PC jukebox software will likely be available within the next few months to take advantage of the fact that all disks sold after December 4th will need to be compliant. It remains to be seen if this is true of just new releases, or if the entire back catalog of Blu-Ray disks will eventually be updated. Either way, expect it to be a confusing mess until packaging updates roll along in the Spring.
Many wonder if Managed Copy will satisfy consumers ever increasing demands to “liberate” their digital content from the medium, but consumers historically haven’t embraced solutions that trade one DRM implementation for another. This is especially true when competing technologies such as those from Slysoft accomplishes the same thing, and without any additional usage restrictions.
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Any DRM that calls home to
Submitted by jcollins on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 7:22pm
Any DRM that calls home to see whether or not it should work is doomed to fail. Look at the various DRM'ed music services that have failed and basically said "Sucks to be you, you can't access your music anymore".
just lower the price
Submitted by zeringue on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 5:43am
Why not lower the price of the media, sell volumes more and nobody feels guilty. the industry made the piracy issue when the prices for media went up and DRM issues became more of a hassle for the nice guy.
I am certainly not wanting to buy new hardware to play blu ray that barely won a format war. Any thing sony the consumer is likely to get screwed.
Agreed
Submitted by Generic Space Marine on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 5:35am
I have to agree with that. There's no true benefit to these 'managed copies.'
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I prefer unmananged copy
Submitted by whitehat2009 on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 12:30am
I don't know about you, but adding a pinch of Slysoft's AnyDVD HD and some open-source ripping tools seems much more appealing than this limited-copy DRM bullshit.
I'm with you. I haven't
Submitted by Tekzel on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 5:48am
I'm with you. I haven't bought, nor do I expect to any time soon, anything related to Blu-Ray. Its just too encumbered and obnoxious with the HDMI protected path garbage. I would rather not be a part of it, DVD is just fine for me even though I have SEEN blueray and know how awesome it looks. No amount of awesomeness is worth the crap they put into it.
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Submitted by nekollx on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 9:21am
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