This DVD will self destruct in.....about 2 days

[Swoop]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3064327.stm


However it'll take about half an hour for the hackers to figure out how to copy them.

[Frogm4n]

rip it off the dvd then bit torrent then burn. fun fun fun!

[Mini D]

Proof positive that George Lucas is not the only one that didn't learn a single thing from the DivX fiasco.

MiniD

[gofaster]

Do they really expect people to pay good money after bad to mail the bad DVDs to some company for recycling?

[Manedew]

if you can display it, you can rip it ..... doubt anyone can figure out how to change that ....

[Dinger]

yeah, you can probably make a small container and use a one-way stopper and one of htose pumps for preserving opened wine bottles and keep those dvds for longer.
There are going to be ways around it.  But there's a market for DVD rental, and it currently isn't doing that well (all those scratched and smudged surfaces. My god, what do people do with the DVDs they rent?).so maybe

[Skuzzy]

I concur Dinger.  Everytime I rent one, I open it before walking out of the store.  I swear some people blow thier noes on those things.
I rented one that had chocolate syrup on it once.

[Vulcan]

Originally posted by Dinger
yeah, you can probably make a small container and use a one-way stopper and one of htose pumps for preserving opened wine bottles and keep those dvds for longer.
There are going to be ways around it.  But there's a market for DVD rental, and it currently isn't doing that well (all those scratched and smudged surfaces. My god, what do people do with the DVDs they rent?).so maybe

Says it uses the same protection on disc as other dvd's. So DVD Xcopy or DVD Xcopy Xpress or DVD Clone or (insert thousands of other dvd copying software names here) will make short work of it.

I picked up an NEC 4x DVD+R/RW drive yesterday, for about US$150, went home installed it, installed DVD Xcopy Xpress and had a nice working backup of my Dark Blue World DVD in an hour.

This sounds like a tool FOR piracy rather than against it.

Anyway, that page had a link to a far more important story : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2992914.stm

[Mini D]

Consumers have already expressed their displeasure with disposable DvD products.  George Lucas can attest to that.

As far as these being a replacement at rental stores... the smudging is a problem it solves... but it creates quite a few more:

• Rental Return generates a large percentage of "chain purchases"... rent one, rent another when you return it...
• Rental stores would have to turn into mini warehouses to hold the now consumable items.  As opposed to a number of DvDs lasting them a few weeks, a large supply could go in a week and they'd have to be shipping in more.  Having to rely on shipping on a regular basis is an entirely different world.
• Those "classic" DvDs would be out of stock.  How often would they bother re-supplying an out of date consumable?
• It generates a considerable amount of waste.

I could think of quite a few more if I put my mind to it.

MiniD

[Pfunk]

Just use DVDDecrypter, to rip it to your hard drive and use dvdshrink 2.3 to take a dvd and put in on 1 blank.  really neat piece of software you can reencode movie only, or compress the extra features to still images delete subtitles and foreign language audio tracks.  Takes about 20 mins to rip, 20 mins to reencode, 15-25 mins to burn depending on speed of dvd burner.

[Fishu]

I wonder how much more trash this would create in a wide scale usage.
It's doubtful there would be "used DVD" recycling centers popping up...
It definately isnt the most fastest material to subside in the enviroment.

I can foresee EU, or at least Finland, creating an enviromental tax for it.

[funkedup]

I don't pirate DVD's, but if bull**** like this happens, I will start downloading them instead of buying.