[evrydayhustling]

> A Blu-ray disc, game cartridge, or printed book cannot be remotely erased, edited, or deactivated. It is a physical object you can own, resell, lend, archive, or play offline indefinitely.

Isn't this untrue with surprising frequency? Decoding devices phone home, come under new copyright laws, etc etc etc.

[mr_toad]

Blu ray discs can only (legally) be played in licensed devices, and some of the decryption keys can and have been revoked.

[zephen]

Key revocation only affects future disc releases.

[microgpt]

AIUI every disc is mastered with the latest revocation list. When your device sees that it is revoked by any disc, it bricks itself.

[zephen]

> When your device sees that it is revoked by any disc, it bricks itself.

Do you have a citation for that? I don't believe it, partly because I can imagine the sort of class action it would engender.