Since it's written so well, I'm just gonna paste it right off doom9..
QuoteDefine irony: Sony has just come up with another way to corrupt DVDs (they call it copy protection) that makes discs not work on their own players anymore. Well done Sony :)
Full article about it over here: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38938
I like the Sony tech response to the problem so far: "Buy a new DVD player..."
Well, Sony finally got it right and is now going to fix the existing burns and supply replacements to those who want them.
http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6434584.html
DRM splained (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARccOS_Protection).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DVDs_Protected_by_ARccoS shows a pretty sparse list, considering the # of films that are out on DVD nowadays. (I have "The US vs. John Lennon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_U.S._vs._John_Lennon)", a fantastic and sad and inspiring documentary, but a non-Sony DVD player so of course it played fine ;D )
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maybe this is a sign of the pointlessness of physical media...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeltime_Rentals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vongo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CinemaNow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movielink