DRM - more choices for the consumers!

The content industry keeps saying that DRM (also known as CRAP or C.R.A.P.) is good for consumers because it creates more choice for us consumers. here is the latest "choice": To be able to play that new BD movie you just bought, you might need to upgrade your players firmware - if you are so lucky that the manufaturer has made an updated firmware available, otherwise you just out of luck!

How do you do a firmware update? Here is a bit of info:

Many of these players don't have Ethernet ports, as the Blu-ray spec doesn't require them. Updating the firmware on these units involves downloading an .ISO from the web site, unpacking it, burning it onto a CD-R or CD-RW, putting the disc in the player, rebooting, following the prompts, and hoping that all goes well.

I'm pretty sure my mom and dad wouldn't have a clue and would be out of luck until I made a visit and did it for them.

It is a fantastic business decision they've made: Let us annoy our honest customers the most.