copyright protection

[ozfestus]

As I understand Blu-Ray publishing, modified region coding is to be retained. Further, the copyright protection is to include a feature that will update the Blu-Ray bios should a Blu-Ray disk fail a copyright test and render the player un-useable.
As far as I am concerned both of these scheems are unacceptable. I live in Australia but am able to handle German as well as Malay. With the region zoning I will be denied access to the German movie market as well as the Malay movie market. Furter, I will not be able to order movies from the US or other english speaking countries.
As for the feature that allows a content provider to disable my player - I do not know what the laws are in other countries but here you get into trouble if I damage property that does not belong to you. Therefore the question arises: will content providers pay for repairs to my hardware should they implement the bios update feature? After all it is possible for a borrowed disk I do not know the history of to fail the copyright test.