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Self-Destructing DVD's Coming Soon
BrianH writes "Looks like a close cousin of everybody's favorite self-destructing video format is making a comeback. Four years after Circuit City and its Hollywood backers pulled the plug on the self-expiring DVD concept, FlexPlay Technologies has introduced the EZ-D...a 48-hour self-expiring DVD disk. The difference? This time around you don't need a special player, and "time extensions" are no longer an option. It looks like Buena Vista has already signed on to the format, so Disney, Mirimax, and all of their other companies should be using this soon. As if that wasn't bad enough, it looks like this works for music and software disks too!" Here's an older story on these technologies.
greedy capitalist assholes.
This is capitalism at it's best: The people who make them get more and more money while those who purchase are forced to suffer. I don't like this idea at all.
We are but a pixel in the JPEG of life.
No, I wouldn't. Mostly because with my luck, it would expire right when I was in the middle of a high-speed pursuit after watching a DVD (which is probably going to be illegal in 10 years).
Oh, yeah! I got a poke in at the DMCA! Surely I'll get a 5 Funny now!