Most of these articles I ignore since they will always crack everything, but this part caught my attention:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...-re-cracks-bd-
For those of you not following this one-sided fight, Blu-Ray movies do a lot of very unfortunate things, like stripping your fair use rights, preventing backups (no one has kids or pets that maul disks), being incompatible with boatloads of hardware, and transmitting every viewing, every click, and every thing you do back to who-knows-where to be used against you. Really, they do that, why do you think net access is mandatory?
Now I have been researching getting a BR player here, but I don't want one that calls home on what it is I do.
Anyone here have a standalone BR player that isn't hooked up to the net?
-S