Digital Home Thoughts: Managed Copies Coming To Blu-ray Sometime Eventually

"Beginning next year, studios and other content holders will be required to give consumers the ability to make one copy of any Blu-ray Disc they buy. Dubbed “managed copy,” the requirement has long been planned for the Blu-ray format, but has only just been finalized by the Advanced Access Content System License Administrator, a consortium of studios, hardware manufacturers and technology companies that licenses the AACS copy protection used on Blu-ray Discs."

Good news everybody! The specification that will allow you to make one copy of your Blu-ray Disc has been finalized! That is the sound of progress marching that you hear in the background. The one thing left standing in your way is for studios, manufacturers and licensers to approve of the new specification. Actually, the two things left standing in your way is approval and new hardware. Okay, the three things left are approval by a those related to Blu-ray, new hardware and the licensing server to go online. Oh, and you might have to pay the sudio a fee for making that copy. But that is it! Really! Technology really had made our lives easier, has it not?