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Self-Destructing DVD's Coming Soon

Posted by michael on from the watch-in-fast-forward dept.

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.

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  1. Fuck Them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    greedy capitalist assholes.

  2. I late for my Nambla meeting . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Friday is my busy day. After I get off work as a substitute gym teacher, I have to race across town to the NAMBLA meeting. Then it's a quick pit stop at McDonald's for a bite and to check out who is having a Happy Meal in Playland.

    Afterward I must zip uptown to the Apple Users' Group meeting. Finally by 11:00 pm it's time to head home with my PowerBook and scope out the K12 chat rooms. As I said, it's my busy day. If it weren't for my Apple computer, I don't know how I could do it all.

  3. Capitalism by z3r0n3 · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.
  4. phuh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    yawn. What a dumb idea.

  5. Re:In other news... by Dylan+Zimmerman · · Score: 0, Troll

    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!