16 May
2003
16 May
'03
7:15 p.m.
On Friday, May 16, 2003, at 04:30 PM, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
That is the warning The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE:DIS - news) will issue this August when it begins to "rent" DVDs that after two days become unplayable and do not have to be returned.
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Buena Vista hopes the technology will let it crack a wider rental market, since it can sell the DVDs in stores or almost anywhere without setting up a system to get the discs back.
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However, the disc can be copied within 48 hours, since it works like any other DVD during that window.
Stupid. This will probably encourage piracy -- not to mention the large amount of plastic trash generated by the oxidized disks. j burnes