Copy protection bites MS in the ass
Posted By matt on October 7, 2005
Nutshell version:
- Sony caves to Fox and adds strong copy protection to Blu-Ray format. This protection is supposed to “stop piracy”, but basically the concern is that it will only play movies in an approved DVD player, and not in PC's.
- Since MS's XBox 360 plans center around a standard DVD drive and streaming movies from a PC to the XBox, this potentially throws a huge monkey wrench in their plans.
- Meanwhile, the PS3 will have a Blu-Ray drive, so it can work like a normal DVD player.
See little children, copy protection is BAD. You could do way more cool things if there wasn't any copy protection.
Oh, in a related story, Sony was telling people how to circumvent their own copy protection in order to be able to put the CD's on iPods.
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