Is AACS Killing the Blu-ray Disc Industry?

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“If you are going to press a Blu-ray disc, you have to have an AACS key which requires an upfront fee of about $3,000 as sort of a starting fee, and then pay $1,300 per key, plus a per-disc royalty on top of that. So when you add all that up, for a first-time independent producer to put out his first BD title, it cuts really deep into his potential profit,”

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