Actually, Sony is making its copy protection asshattery a huge pain for customers. In a nutshell, their copy protection is jacked to the point where some of Sony's own DVD players won't play Sony's own DVDs. And here's the corporate line on whose problem this is:

We know about this problem. Its our new copy protection that’s making these discs unplayable in some players including our own, we do not intend to change the copy protection. The only correction to this problem is a firmware update to your player. The electronics division know about this and should have given you this information.

And here I thought there was no way to make sitting through the anti-piracy warnings any more annoying. Imagine if you had to update your player's firmware just to sit through that horseshit! But wait, it gets worse, as Jeff Nolan reports:

The best part is that the new DRM that Sony is using prevents the discs from playing on some DVD players, including their own, but does nothing to stop DVD ripper software from accessing the content. Really, I can’t make this stuff up.

Neither can we, and sadly, Sony ensures that we don't have to. Guess I know which company's products to avoid on my hunt for a good stereo speakers and a decent TV...