Self-Destructing DVD's Coming Soon 798
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.
Mission Impossible (Score:4, Funny)
Ways to crack it (Score:5, Funny)
MS? (Score:0, Funny)
No problem. (Score:5, Funny)
Great! (Score:5, Funny)
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ways to crack it (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Mission Impossible (Score:5, Funny)
Just save some h/d room (Score:1, Funny)
Re:In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wasteful (Score:2, Funny)
48 hours huh? (Score:5, Funny)
They're doing you a favor! (Score:5, Funny)
Expiration (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ways to crack it (Score:5, Funny)
Poke. Poke. Poke. Poke.
No more movies.
Mwa ha ha ha.
Suicidal DVD's (Score:5, Funny)
So, I oblige. *Inserts DVD into DVD-R*
I don't call it ripping...I call it saving lives, one movie at a time.
Re:Great! (Score:5, Funny)
The Matrix CD (Score:2, Funny)
Mr. DVD: "My name is
-Dae
Re:Great, just great! - uhh... (Score:5, Funny)
Well...it works for the MPAA and RIAA. I guess the "consumers" are catching up. ;-)
Re:48 hours huh? (Score:4, Funny)
Good Morning Mr Phelps (Score:2, Funny)
Re:OK for rental companies... (Score:3, Funny)
Damn damn damn! (Score:3, Funny)
i dont care (Score:1, Funny)
Consumers are inherently criminal. (Score:5, Funny)
And this is definitely a COMPELLING solution. The way I see it, every product should self destruct after 48 hours. Bought a computer? Well, a $2,000 computer should be the first thing to self destruct after 48 hours. The warranty card would read, "This warranty expires 47 hours and 59 minutes and 59 seconds and 999 milliseconds after you make up your mind to buy a computer, and not even this particular one!"
Bought a new car? They should attach explosives all over the car... don't worry, 48 hours after leaving the dealership, a buzzing sound will alert you and your passengers that you must exit the vehicle, and then the car will drive itself under automated control to a safe part of the desert before exploding. And yes, you still have to pay off the financing for the new vehicle. In fact, dealers will be extra innovative in this respect: You'll simply subscribe to receive a new car every 48 hours and your bank account will simply be debited for the $25,000 or whatever the MSRP is for each occasion. If you don't have that amount of money at the bank, the dealer will provide an alley for you to prostitute yourself in order to earn the money. In fact, it will become federal LAW that you MUST prostitute yourself in order to pay for self-destructing products, as it is the God given right of multinational corporations to enjoy eternal perpetually increasing profits, and it will simultaneously be illegal to prostutute yourself, thus putting you in a situation that you will go to jail no matter what you do, and you will have to subscribe to a new "eMafia" protection service to avoid such arrest. It will obviously be illegal to bypass any devices that make the car blow up after 48 hours, and if you do so, you'll get more time in jail than a murderer or a rapist. In fact, to make the justice system more balanced in light of today's enormous piracy problems, murder charges and rape charges will be reduced to misdemeanors, because those crimes aren't all that bad, but if you God-forbid copy an album so you can perform the horrendous crime against humanity, a thousand times worse than any genocide this world has ever seen, the criminal act of listening to an album that you paid 20 bucks for... you should be beaten nearly to death but simultaneously kept alive, and tortured, and made to suffer the worst of all sufferings of the world combined and then some, because you are the dirtiest, slimiest, shittiest, more horrible criminal this world has ever seen, and shame on you.
Oh yeah... Houses will be made to self destruct in 60 hours, to compensate for the fact that you need to move your belongings in before they self destruct.
Overkill much? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I think it's outstanding! (Score:3, Funny)
Not gonna work. Just think of how pissed off you get when your US$0.60 candy bar gets stuck in the coils and fails to drop...think of how hard you rock and beat that machine. The DVD machine wouldn't last a day.
Re:I think it's a damn good idea (Score:1, Funny)
This can't happen soon enough.
Re:Ways to crack it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Trying to put rental places out of business? (Score:2, Funny)
You're new here, aren't you?
Film Industry (Score:5, Funny)
Hmm.. When I first read that, I misinterpreted your mention of the "film industry" to mean they'd use this as a plot point.
NEXT SUMMER.. IT'S JAMES BOND.. IN A RACE AGAINST TIME!
[M] James Bond, we need you to get this DVD to a scientist held prisoner in a North Korean jail!
[James Bond] Sounds too easy. What's the catch?
[M] You only have 48 hours-- before the DVD's copy-protection makes it disintegrate!
And of course james bond slams the dvd into the north korean prisoner's imac with 5 seconds left before the disk oxidizes or whatever, after which we get to see a tense moment while COPYING FILE appears on screen and a progress bar tries to outrun the dying DVD while the seconds tick down... will it be copied in time?
Find out, in
007: JAMES SCREWS SOME CHICKS AND THINGS BLOW UP
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Re:Ways to crack it (Score:5, Funny)
Then cover it with a layer of clear acrylic spray.
Thanks a lot, you insensitive clod! Now you've gone and made nitrogen and clear coat illegal circumvention technologies under the DMCA.
Now only criminals will have nitrogen and clear coat.
And I use them everday for, uh, um, medical reasons.
Re:Ways to crack it (Score:1, Funny)
Oh drats (Score:5, Funny)
Sweet! (Score:3, Funny)
Put some windex on it! (Score:4, Funny)
Seriously, does anyone think that some little startup has so completely exhausted the realm of human knowledge in proving there are no countermeasures? I doubt it.
There's nothing like 5 billion people looking for a Something-for-Nothing win to subvert a concept like this.
Re:Mission Impossible (Score:1, Funny)