Asian Piracy

I wouldn't say BR is causing problems to the pirates, it only has a very small fraction of the market so i doubt they're overly concerned.

If BR gets more popular then prices will fall and the pirates will be able to afford it.

Sounds like a slimly disguised PR stunt to me.
 
At the moment it's keeping small scale pirates (burners) under control - at least until they work out how to rip out unnecessary things (FMV etc) from some games ;), or until blu-ray burners and media drops in price.

The only reason BR would be slowing commercial scale pirates down (those who press thousands of disks*), is fairly simple.
It requires new pressing equipment, you cannot use/adapt DVD/CD equipment to do the job.
Once (if) it becomes more popular as a format, and more pressing plants get the equipment commercial level piracy will increase, at the moment the pressing plants capable of making blu-ray disks are relatively few, large (and well monitored/regulated)

It's the commercial scale pirates that do more damage to the market (imo), than the smaller "man with burners", as the commercial ones can and do sell the disks by the tens of thousands, that will work on any console be it modded or not (so no worries about damaging your new console).
It's these commercial pirates who are also able to make the disks at the cheapest/best quality (which makes it a lot harder to spot, as they can be nearly the same quality as the real thing).


*or hundreds of thousands.
 
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