April 27th, 2010 
Cliff Riseborough 
Avatar, the movie that made approximately 7 gazillion dollars at the box office, came out on DVD this past week. Unfortunately, it seems that the DRM used to keep the Blu-Ray DVD from being copied at all has also kept the movie from being playable at all for many buyers.
As with all movie studios, Fox is of the opinion that making a copy of your movie for yourself makes you a terrible human being. What’s next…you’ll want to rip that movie to your iPod?! Monstrous! Obviously, a person could become so addicted to easily copying their movie to various media that they’d just start making copies for everyone. Soon, nobody would buy movies because of that damned Bob Nabors from Wisconsin! No, we have to nuke it from orbit! It’s the only way to be sure…
So Fox throws a DRM system on to Avatar copies that keeps some Blu-Ray players from even reading it properly. In some cases, it can apparently be fixed by downloading a firmware update. In others…you’re hooped. And yet I’d be willing to put some money down on a bet that Avatar is available right now on movie download sites…
Way to go, Fox. Good job.
(Thanks to The Consumerist)
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