This "advice" in fact doesn't come from Slysoft, it's your personal advice isn't it James.
So let's make it an official advice from SlySoft.
But we never asked people to buy other products, just because we couldn't crack something.
I think you don't get the point. "Cracking" is to some extent our business. The more there is to crack, the better. Sure, we're going to handle BD+, there's no doubt about that.
From a business point of view, the better the protection, the less competitors, the better for us. So it's pretty silly to imply that we'd be afraid not to be able to crack BD+.
The money-making part of us would rather embrace it.
Apart from being business people we are also movie enthusiasts. And that part of James is speaking when he makes his statements concerning Blu-Ray. And I fully second them - so does the rest of us.
I'm not going to repeat them here again for the 100th time - who doesn't get them just doesn't want to get them.
The market will work itself out.
Unfortunately not.
And that's actually what this is about.
The whole "format war" is in fact really a sort of democratic process, yes, that's right. But most people don't have the facts and without facts, democracy is not more than a word.
I read it a lot here: "I don't care about politics, I want to watch my movie".
It's a valid point, granted, but in this situation it's just like playing chess and only considering your next move. You'll lose. Fact.
I once knew a country not far from here. The people elected a president even though apx. 80% of the world's population knew that he was incompetent and only had his personal goals in mind - bad things were going to happen.
The people didn't care, the president told them things they wanted to hear. Time passed and bad things did happen. The economy of the country in a bad state, inflation out of control, a messy war started.
Oh, well, I'm drifting off topic, so back to us.
Here we have a wannabe president, who is luring us to elect him "come....nice little doggies....nice round and flat thingy with beautiful moving colors for watchy-watchy....".
And all are hypnotized by the intriguing prospects of nice round blue thingy.
Let's zoom forward a little. Wannabe president became president.
Now look at this extremely special constellation. The president owns the [SIZE=-1]executive, legislative and judicial system in one! Cool.
And knowing the unscrupulous things this president had done to his people in the past to maximize his profit, he surely [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]will [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]know how to take advantage of this new situation in a most beneficial way.
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In this democracy, both parties are cheating and lying, the ones with the blue hats more than the red hats, but the point is: if you don't think for yourself, you'll lose. Another point is: most people don't think (or have other things to worry about).
Sony is an extremely aggressive company with not much respect for their customers.
And what we can try to do is direct people to the things they should know. They need a "heads up".
If that is a small side note in a changelog, I'm fine with it.