Your right, but you know Sony. You do not get bigger than MS and Sony when it comes to anti-piracy,hacking, etc. They spend althis money trying to deter or make their products hack free, but in the end it is superficia. But they have to gie the effort or they would potray that they have givin in.

true but, many movie developers, will want sony to do soemthing about it. And Sony should.

They sure do. They can release a patch and fill in that security hole but guess what ? ... The hackers will go at it again and probably be successful.

It will still be a while before they can take advantage of it as BD rewritables are still expensive not talking about the drives and they will need big hard drives to keep downloading movies. My computers are slow and it takes 30 mins to transfer files a 1gb file and off the internet nearly an hour so I won't be able it copy 30gb movie for a while yet.

DVD's, oh how fast technology moves...

Given the size of the files required to maintain HD quality and sound, I don't think it's fair to compare BD to MP3, CD, or even DVD. It's going to be awfully hard to move the files around easily. Now we're talking a few gigabytes, instead of DVD quality at 700k-900k.

Also, the find formats that work best at these resolutions with full fidelity sound are not commonly use. I'm sure Sony's not happy, what happened to Music and DVDs won't happen to HD Audio/Video for some time.

Even if we get the bandwidth, the percentage of users who can afford it the first few years will be negligible to piracy.

Does sound good for your backing up your own movies.

thats the reason why I disagreed with you, hackers are always going to be hackers, and find loop holes in all things. As far as them failing, I think they are pretty successful in that department. The biggest danger right now for blu ray, and you can disagree with me all you want, but the biggest danger is bootlegging of blu ray movies this early in its life cycle. As specially, if the movies hold the same quality of a blu ray dvd priced at almost 30 bucks and works on all blu ray drivers.

Hackers almost always prevail. Sometimes it does not even tke super smrt hackers. Remember when Sony spent millions of dollars on anti-piracy tech in CD's or DVD's ( I cn not remember which one) and soeone deafeated that high end tech with a felt tip marker.

hackers all ways end up failing?? What did i miss something??? How are they failing CD's can be burned, so can DVD's and so will Blu-Ray... Its just a matter of time.

(Currently) Hacking BR is futile.

1. Not many people are interested in downloading a 20gb movie of torrent.
2. If ripping and burning is your piracte of choice, not enough people have adopted BR drives for their PC yet.
3. Price, a blank 25gb BR disc costs about £1 less than a BR movie.

Obviously over time this is gonna change, but right now, BR shouldnt need to be overly worried by this news.

That's not exactly true, M.D. Blu-Ray 25 gig 2x recordable can be found for $10 or less if you shop around. 500 gig hard drives can be had for around $100 which would fit 25+ full-length blu-ray movies on and stream them from media center. I, for one, am looking forward to being able to (legitimately) download hi-def movies...

Sony cares about the future and if they face the problem head on now it'll be better then later.