Consumers will soon legally have the right to make one copy of each Blu-ray disc they own. However, there won’t be Blu-ray players that allow them to do it until the first or second quarter of 2010. (http://www.electronichouse.com/article/bluray_managed_copy_coming_in_2010/#When:20:38:00Z)

The Advanced Access Content System License Authority (AACSLA) has finalized digital rights management (DRM) specifications that allow for limited “managed copies” of Blu-ray discs to be made by consumers. Studios, which will have the option to charge for the copies, will have to sign the AACS license agreement by Dec. 4, 2009.

What a joke really! It's almost as though they want you to illegally copy movies or download them from torrent sites (it can be one today after all) by making it cumbersome and complicated...

As long as the new disks will play on the old players, I'm fine with it... I really don't see the demand for this, but different strokes for different folks I guess.

I'm concern that it's going to be like Sony's Arccos fiasco all over again. I still remember the DVD Forgotten, Marie Antoinette, Casino Royale and The Pursuit of Happyness with the (then) new Arccos copy protection failed to play on my Sony S7000 DVD player and the only way for me to play those movies was by ripping them and re-burn them to a DVD-R.

(the above problem is well documented to the point Sony had an 800 number to do disc exchange -- to the ones with no Arccos implemented)