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."

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Re:Absolutely Stupid!

[Yorrike]

Psychics are bullshit.
Ouija is bullshit.
War on Drugs is bullshit.
Alternative Medicine is bullshit.
Feng Shui is bullshit.
The Bible is bullshit.

I mostly agree on those points, and I'm sketchy about PETA, but I'm afraid the others (recycling and second hand smoke) are not something I can agree are bullshit. Also, just because it's on TV, doesn't make it true. If you have evidence that's more concrete than a TV show I can't watch (this "Showtime" of your's doesn't air here), then please bring it forward.