With the exception of Sony, the manufacteres of these burners/players have no reason to put restrictions, in fact, its in their interest to make it easier for the enduser to do what every they want. Why? because they are selling hardware, not content. Thats why VCRs were so popular, company's didnt care that people pirated content with them, the studios cared.
Sony is a special case though since they produce hardware as well as content, before the used to be a very divided company in terms of policy thus the VCRs and BETA Max etc.. but now they seem to be working together to include content protection into their hardware.
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With the exception of Sony, the manufacteres of these burners/players have no reason to put restrictions, in fact, its in their interest to make it easier for the enduser to do what every they want. Why? because they are selling hardware, not content. Thats why VCRs were so popular, company's didnt care that people pirated content with them, the studios cared.
Sony is a special case though since they produce hardware as well as content, before the used to be a very divided company in terms of policy thus the VCRs and BETA Max etc.. but now they seem to be working together to include content protection into their hardware.