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More Incompatible DVDs and CDs Coming Your Way

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the don't-make-us-modchip-our-stereos dept.

wwwssabbsdotcom writes " More DRM is coming to DVD and CD shelves in the future. Looks like more incompatible discs for players around the world. Rip-proof and self-destructing seems to be the latest DRM craze."

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  1. DRM for the U.S. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Edible DVDs

  2. DRM for good? by nacs · · Score: 5, Funny
    Last year, record label Sony Music came under fire when new European CD releases by artists Celine Dion and Shakira wouldn't play....
    Is this really a bad thing? I mean Shakira may be semi-decent but Celine Dion not playing? Who's going to miss that? Chrysler?
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    1. Re:DRM for good? by NanoGator · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Last year, record label Sony Music came under fire when new European CD releases by artists Celine Dion and Shakira wouldn't play...."

      Millions of boyfriends everywhere simultaneously sigh with relief.

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    2. Re:DRM for good? by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


      Millions of boyfriends everywhere simultaneously sigh with relief.

      Two of them are even slashdot readers!

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  3. Hmm. by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    So if I buy the "Mission Impossible" DVD, I better heed the warning that says "This message will self destruct in 5 seconds" ?

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  4. You'll Just Have To Trust Us... by vudujava · · Score: 5, Funny
    The next generation of DRM:
    "You'll just have to trust us. Even though you can't play the movie, it was really, really, really good." - MPAA

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  5. Re:Office 2003 by ItWasThem · · Score: 5, Funny

    And just wait for the first time some idiot CFO accidentally locks himself out of his own files...

    Heck, the CFO could just circumvent the copy protection on those files. What's a DMCA violation on the criminal record of a CFO these days anyways? It wouldn't even show up until the 8th or 9th page.

  6. Re:Decay of entire entertainment industry, society by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's about time people stop wasting time watching TV, it really cuts into the amount of time you can waste each day reading slashdot.

  7. Re:Yeah. by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 5, Funny
    It was called DIVX. It was miserable failure.
    No, it's not a miserable failure. I've got upwards of 50 DIVX movies on a hard disk in one of my computers.