Has Plextor stopped blocking Safedisc 2

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There is a school of thought at the moment, that Plextor has deliberately changed the more recent firmware so to make copying SD2 discs impossible. This is based on some research done by some peeps which demonstrated that upgrading firmware caused a Plex drive to be unable to copy SD2. Downgrade re-enabled SD2 copying.
Whether you believe this is up to you....there is a lot of evidence to suggest that failure to burn SD2 titles is based around the EFM encoder in the hardware of the drive. And not the firmware.