“This makes me want to participate even more in distributing pirated movies and never again pay to watch one.” – tmiuser found here http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/11/blu-ray-discs-get-managed-copy-hardware-support-nonexistent.ars?comments=1&comment_id=470005812041

This argument is extremely popular. The big media conglomerates, and their legal mouthpieces claim to have their consumers best interest at heart when allowing for the backing up of their media (through expensive and ridiculous ways), and the average consumer is (understandably, I think) fed up with it.
Example: I have a legally purchased copy of Ju-On: The Grudge, the Japanese version of the remake American horror film The Grudge. My teenage daughter absolutely loves this movie, and wants to watch it whenever possible, in her laptop, on the television in the living room, on the television downstairs and upstairs. And, being a teenager, manages to lose/trash/mangle/otherwise render unreadable the DVD I spent $20 on.
According to the Digital Millennium Copywrite Act (DMCA), tough rocks. I purchased the rights to view that movie using that DVD. I now have to re-purchase the movie in whatever the latest format is, in the latest too-much packaging with too-many previews of movies I don’t care about, and other nonsense. According to the DMCA, I don’t own that movie. My $20 pays for the right to watch that movie. That is all.
Unfortunately for the media conglomerates, software exists to remove the copy-protection from those DVDs. Software (AnyDVD) exists to allow me to make a copy of that DVD and put it on my NAS, or put it on another DVD (CloneDVD), or even put it on a portable media device, so she can take it out of the house and watch it, without killing the $20 DVD. By the way, this software also makes it possible for the Linux user to watch DVDs on their system, as the digital rights management software, built into the DVDs copy protection has no support for Linux.
When the average consumer gets pissed off because he/she has to replace yet another fragile disk, that’s another possible pirate. The average consumer is tired of being treated like a criminal when they purchase their favorite movie. They want to be able to view it on anything they see fit, and when there are restrictions on the media, they look elsewhere, like torrent sites. And then, the computer tech comes in to clean up the viruses brought in by the unsuspecting average consumer (see, you knew I’d pull us in here eventually, right?).