I think he was just blowing off steam like the rest of us.
He's not really expecting you to make any phone calls.
I don't think anybody here is misguided enough to think that this was cyberlink’s decision. It was however cyberlink’s decision to sneek this out in an update and call it a feature.
They could have fessed up and said that the big bad is forcing this and they don't have any options. (rose tinted glasses perhaps)
But hey its happened, nothing we can do about it but wait for a fix which will most likely use virtual drive technology. Slysoft have developed this in other progs so hopefully it won't take to long.
In the mean time I'm using 3104 and avoiding new Blu-ray disks
Thanks for sayin'. Yes, I was just blowing off some steam; and it was the middle of the night for me, and I now see I expressed myself very clumsily. My apologies for that. If anything, I look to SlySoft to save us.
And I think they will -- they always have in the past. So, by all means, keep up the good work!
And yes, I'd rather they came out and said, "Sorry, RIAA and thugs are breathing down our neck, and we have no choice but to comply," then this little stunt they pulled. Well, way it is is the way it is.
P.S. I read (on this forum, *g*) that they're gonna release a new patch, come the 16th of this month, allegedly 'fixing' something. I hope by then sanity has gotten the better of them again, but can't say I'm struck with an overabundance of confidence in the matter.
P.P.S. PowerDVD 7.3 Ultra 3319a still works, too. And it still plays BD+ content from harddisk as well! Very luckily for me I still had that one my XP partition (I only got me the upgrade because PowerDVD ain't exactly rock-stable in Vista Ultimate).