Originally posted by: C3PX
But how will they know the player has been hacked? How will the damn thing communicate with them? Are they going to update themselves everynight by wirelessly communicating with the studios? Informing them of your movie watching habbits. I don't find that idea very comforting. Not to mention the potential hazard that poses in the event of a robot uprising...

Generally speaking, the player cracks, at least the software ones, are usually pretty well publicized, so the studios and manufacturers end up finding out very quick. They don't have to communicate with the player in order to disable future titles. They simply withdraw the key as an authorized key and all new titles ship without that key. So unless the players are updated to reflect the changes, they simply refused to play that disc.

Don't think of it as the current system with DVDs and CSS. CSS had very few keys so they couldn't be pulled. The new encryption, afaik, has millions or billions of keys. They can invalidate one key and still have billions of valid keys left. I'm not exactly sure how it all works and some groups have already cracked some of the Blu-ray software players, but the strictest DRM has yet to be implemented. If it ever is and they take advantage of it, it could cause a lot of problems for consumers.