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Yet Another Degrading DVD
Aire Libre writes "Efforts to eliminate price competition from cheap DVD rentals and used DVD sales appear to be speeding up. Flexplay Technology's EZ-D self-destructing DVD, which goes dark in a lagardly 48 hours, has been surpassed by a French DVD-D that goes dark in a speedy eight hours. Because neither technology has anything to do with piracy, they both appear marketed at movie studios that might wish to drive up the price of DVD rentals. Presumably, once throw-away DVDs catch on, the studios can for the first time prevent price competition between rental and sales of DVDs by charging more for a regular DVD (rentable and re-saleable) and having the retail sales copies disappear 8 hours after opening so that no one can re-sell them, lend them, rent them or give them to charity. This will also suppress competition from rentals and used copies against currently uncompetitive online movie downloads."
..maybe Longhorn will degrade into a lean, useful, unintrusive OS?
WHy don't you take that disposable DVD and shove it up your liberal ass!
Our landfills are FAR from overflowing, a landfill 35 miles swuare and 200 feet high could provide all the space we need (yes the USA) for 1000 years. Landfill overflow is a myth.
And the population of America used to be much whiter back then too. It seems everything today is moving to "lower-grade waste."