It's probably about protecting a commercial-level monopoly. You could presumably put together a box with a BD-ROM mechanism that runs a kiosk-mode VLC or the l

It's probably about protecting a commercial-level monopoly. You could presumably put together a box with a BD-ROM mechanism that runs a kiosk-mode VLC or the like that could play every concievable format. I'm sort of surprised it doesn't exist already on Alibaba. But chucking around the legal weight of DRM keeps that product off the market, ensuring that the "legitimate" manufacturers willing to pay for licenses, keys, and patent pools don't have to fight it.