It is someting about the whole copy protection regime I find... ironic in loss of a better word.
I've read through this thread and I think the numbers notet here are quite accurate, so...
The number one media for movies are DVD which has 4 out of 5 sold discs. I am pretty sure anyone would agree that most people find the SD of DVD sufficiant as their priority is the content rather than pixels. As everyone know, copy protection of DVD is next to none and can be played with almost any mediaplayer available for download. So why do they still release movies on DVDs?
I do not have any numbers on how many of pirated copys are DVDs vs BDs, but that wouldn't actually matter if you look at the statistics, 'cause it's the content that matters. If the companies like to decrease the amount of piracy and increase income I think maybe the first thing they should do is to stop releasing movies on DVDs. The cost of a BD player today is quite low, so it wouldn't have a huge impact on the general consumer. Releasing movies on 3 different medias will not bring any good to the future of physical media.
Next step would be to force all companies selling BD players to implement the ability to play UHDBDs. The player itself doesn't need to be able to send the complete list of improvements from regular BD to UHDBD through the HDMI, but downscale to keep cost down. Voilá and we have one media
This will of course not happen, but it would be the correct way forward.
I'll explain why I find it "Ironic" if you didn't get what I'm trying to say here (my native is not english).
As the copy protection of DVDs are not there, the copy protection of BD is quite difficult to bypass and the UHDBD is not broken yet, they should at least try to take advantage of the situation and make the transition.
As a sidenote (also on the very naive side of things). Software like AnyDVD/CloneBD should be released by the BD consortium, and then tag the lisens number of the application into every iso/file made with it. This way they could track down whoever shared a movie. Then we would be rid of those bastards who are the reason why we have to deal with copy protection in the first place.