RE: [dvd-discuss] Disney Does Self Destructing DVDs

["Richard Hartman" <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

I don't know that a chemical process qualifies
as a Technical Protection Measure under the DMCA.
It depends upon the definition is _any_ measure that
protects digital content, or a _digital_ measure that
protects digital content . . .


-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!



> -----Original Message-----
> From: microlenz@earthlink.net [mailto:microlenz@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 6:48 PM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Disney Does Self Destructing DVDs
> 
> 
> Sorry to reply to myself but it occurred to me that if the 
> access control works 
> by oxidizing then an anti-oxidant or stabilizing compound would be a 
> circumventing device.
> 
> On 16 Jun 2003 at 8:38, Michael A Rolenz wrote:
> 
> To:             	dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject:        	[dvd-discuss] Disney Does Self Destructing DVDs
> From:           	"Michael A Rolenz" <Michael.A.Rolenz@aero.org>
> Date sent:      	Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:38:36 -0700
> Send reply to:  	dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> 
> > There's a link in the latest cryptogram that Disney is 
> trying out a DVD 
> > that has a coating that oxydizes after a few days rendering the DVD 
> > unplayable so that they do not have to develope an 
> infrastructure for 
> > rental returns....or presumably ever have to sell anyone a 
> copy of their 
> > intellectual property again. Presumably they can use that 
> to return to the good
> > old days when they controlled all the theaters. Except now 
> you provide the
> > theater.
> > 
> > 
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030516/tc_
nm/media_ 
> disney_dvds_dc
> 
> or
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/byb6