Dave Horvath
11 Jan 2007 7:13
In an announcement by Sony about their next-gen Blu-Ray disks, they've released some potentially interesting news about their copy protection standards.
At the Consumer Electronics show held in Las Vegas recently, Sony executives told onlookers that future Blu-Ray disks will be a bit more lax on the DRM standards and allow you to copy the contents of the disk to a hard drive and/or media device for alternative forms of viewing. There was no talk of, but its fairly easy to surmise that they've come up with a way of stacking DRM technology on the files copied off of the disk, in efforts to thwart piracy.
Sony representative, David Bishop stated, "Sony Pictures Entertainment will include portable files on Blu-Ray DVDs that can be transferred without a download. It's not currently part of anything on our current release schedule, but we'll probably roll it out sometime this year."
Source:
Eurogamer