Has anyone considered this? Maybe this list of requirements is taken from a much larger list and different for every contract. Which requirements are chosen could basically be a generated signature so he could track if someone broke an NDA about his contract. I mean, it seems logical enough, given who we're talking about here.

Pet supplies, too. Kind of ridiculous if you ask me.

There may be a little checking going on but if you've ever tried to cram a 1080p/60 w/ multichannel LPCM soundtrack through a cheap cable (even a 6 foot one), you will realize that cable quality DOES matter when you get tired of the signal dropping out in your movies. Not necessarily price, but definitely quality.

It's digital in that it works or doesn't. The problem with bad / cheap cables isn't that they don't work entirely. It's that they sometimes don't work.

Bad summary. TFA says that the iOS 4.2 on the 3G is a far cry from iOS 4.2 on newer ones (and, hence, doesn't count) and that it sucks so bad he had to jump through all kinds of hoops to downgrade back to 3.

This is the first I've heard of it.

Seems to me that someone at Fox just decided Blu-Ray was failing and wanted to write an article about it.

... except that if it thinks a legit copy is a pirate and crashes with this message, they've already adversely affected a paying customer?

IMO, anyone that finds it interesting / odd / unusual that anonymous would do anything probably doesn't understand anonymous.

I wish I had points to mod that funny.

I think the original intent behind the crack was to get full access to the video hardware, which Sony had disabled in the original Other OS feature.

Wasn't there a big hubbub about the ICT several years ago when HD-DVD and Blu-Ray were first coming out? How is this news?