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Post #109,640

7/14/03 7:42:02 PM

How hard is this?

Instead of some gas to obfuscate the DVD, simply burn the DVD with an expiration date/time.

Then make players with built in clocks (that are automatically set, like the VCR we bought last year), then when the DVD decides it's time to stop playing the CD, well it's time, then.

Glen

Post #109,674

Picture of kmself

7/14/03 11:41:49 PM

Um

Think about it, Glen.

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Who do, and don't, you trust?

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Your suggested solution wouldn't work. It might keep an honest man honest, nothing more.

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Not that the dissolving disk solution is one I condone either. Note that it can be bypassed with the simple expedient, however, of copying the disk before it disintegrates.

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Doh!

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Post #109,684

Picture of cforde

7/15/03 1:08:08 AM

so, what you're saying is

that their proposed self-destructing DVDs won't solve their alleged problem either. So, what real benefits do the makers see with this? It will discourage people unwilling to pay the up-front cost of an extra blank DVD-R?

Have fun,
Carl Forde

Post #109,701

7/15/03 6:59:43 AM

I believe that used to be called DivX.

Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed

Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please

-- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne.

Company to release DVDs that expire in 48 hrs - (lincoln) - (8) - July 14, 2003, 09:55:10 AM EDT

Rental woes - (deSitter) - July 14, 2003, 10:12:32 AM EDT

I predict.. - (Ashton) - July 14, 2003, 10:16:33 AM EDT

But, what about all those LATE FEES? - (gdaustin) - July 14, 2003, 10:19:47 AM EDT

Hmmm. Like hot needles thru plastic - (altmann) - July 14, 2003, 05:08:14 PM EDT

How hard is this? - (gdaustin) - (3) - July 14, 2003, 07:42:02 PM EDT

Um - (kmself) - (1) - July 14, 2003, 11:41:49 PM EDT

so, what you're saying is - (cforde) - July 15, 2003, 01:08:08 AM EDT

I believe that used to be called DivX. -NT - (static) - July 15, 2003, 06:59:43 AM EDT

DUDE!
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