How do bits cost nothing? To make an audio recording you must first pay for the microphones, studio time and mixing. The end product, the bits as you call them may cost basically nothing, but to create them in the first place costs quite a bit. I think 35mm film used to make movies is something like £230 per minute...per minute!
If the content creators don't get any payment for their creation, why create in the first place?
Hell, Mac os is basically bits, yet it costs to purchase that?
If nothing is created, what will we do, abandon all material possessions sit around humming all day. Perhaps this is part of Apples Buddhist master plan, to lead us away from material things?
Seriously, this is utterly insane.
Yes, absolutely the insane lengths thieves will go to rationalize away their crimes, and the effect of their crimes on those they have wronged, and eventually, the entire rest of society as people just quit creating anything of worth because they can no longer make a living at it. Already the division between the top and bottom of the food chain in entertainment is so wide the gulf can never be breached without seven figure funding.
this is a scary (IMO) point of view..
Yes it is.
but why would Apple want to spend money to implement the code needed for Blu-ray playback when that format is now considered obsolete? It would serve no purpose to the Mac platform and only slow the march to full open, wireless standards.
Blu-ray has died out, it's like a floppy disk... so there is no reason to support it.
More insane denial to support theft.
OK, just to be clear...Those of us who say "Blu-Ray is DEAD" are obviously exaggerating for effect. Of course, Blu-Ray is not CURRENTLY dead. But it may as well be. The world is very different now than when DVD came on the scene in the late 90's. Digital storage and streaming is much more viable now, and will continue to improve exponentially in the coming years. Blu will NEVER see the market penetration that DVD did.
More wishful thinking that theft and torrents will continue unabated the way they have in the past five years. This will not be so, and Blu-ray will achieve the market penetration that DVD will, to everyone's surprise as EASY institutionalized piracy ends.
So, the fact that it is relatively new, yet is already in its death throes, means that for all practical purposes, BLU-RAY IS DEAD.
Continued denial supported by easy institutionalized theft and the belief it will go on forever. It won't.
Is Carniphage still spouting nonsense? Why haven't people just ignored this troll?
He literally just accused someone of breaking forum rules because they called him what he is - a pirate. A self-important one.
It's obvious he came here for a fight - and ended up steering this thread into tangent territory.
Some thoughts: Apple saying Blu-ray is like SACD and DVD-A is a joke - Blu-ray outsold both formats waaaaaaaay back in 2007. BD isn't a niche. And Apple should offer an option to accommodate customers that want it. They'd probably make more on the Blu-ray "Superdrive" markup than they would for iTunes movies purchases.
Why should Apple do it as long as they have an army of rationalizing lying thieves in denial fighting desperately to cling to their brave new world of free content for all thieves?
It's time to grow up children and leave the thieving behind. And treat people who make the content you covet the way you'd want to be treated if you spent weeks, months, even years of your life to make it. When you go to your workplace and don't get a paycheck at the end of the week or pay period, and when you work for free, and give away everything you do make for free, THEN and only then might you have a case.
Until then, you're just sycophant leeches taking from good people and giving nothing at all back but lies and rationalizations and cheap laughs at your insane view of the world.
Please grow up. Nothing you've stolen will satisfy you a tenth as much as something you've paid for.
... You are as clue as macdrew is.. But I guess that what we get for letting little kids on the internet..
