Tom Walker wrote in a message to Phil Marlowe:

-> > They'd like to change that. Remember DIVX? The "pay per
viewing" 
-> > DVD-like gizmo? When you bought a disk, you got some number of 
-> > "free" viewings. But only on *your* machine. Try playing it on a
-> > friend's and you had to use a credit card to pay for it and 
-> > "authorize" it.
->  
->  That's interesting -- I hadn't heard of that  specific one before. 
-> Here's another example along those lines.

TW> That one frotunatly died it's deserved Death. 
TW> But the Pheonix Rises again. This time it is in the From of "Self
TW> Destructing" DVD's. They come in a sealed container. When the
TW> Container is opened the Air starts the decaying chemical action.
TW> you have some many days to view the DVD before it is no longer
TW> playable.

TW> All this is about the Cost of Re-Stocking Rental DVD's in Stores.
TW> By eliminating that cost the The Price of the Rental goes down(Not
TW> really Likely) or the Profit Goes UP!!!

Jeez.

I have no DVD hardware on hand here,  and no immediate plans to get any, 
but I sure hope that when I do I can stay away from those things.  Sounds
like they'd be destructive to the *drive* if they leaked...

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