Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
"They don't have the guts to follow through on that. Not even the movie industry is willing to alienate its customers that badly . . . is it?"

I guess you didn't hear about the Sony root-kits?

They took a lot of flack for that. I won't even buy a CD that comes from Sony because of it. I wanted Weird Al's latest, but he's published by Sony, so oh well.

Installing root-kits on peoples machines is one thing. Completely disabling grandma's hi-def DVD player is quite another. They don't dare disable a hardware based player. There would be so much backlash that it would be suicide.