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

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

Yeah, exactly.  Not only that, but you have more
incentive to do just that than if the DVD did
not self-destruct.  If this 2-day disc thing
becomes widespread, DVD-ripping is going to become
a common skill, not just one for techno-geeks.


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

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



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noah silva [mailto:nsilva@atari-source.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 1:07 PM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Disney Does Self Destructing DVDs
> 
> 
> I don't quite get this.  I could buy the DVD, copy it to the 
> hard drive,
> and then let it self-destruct.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Roy Murphy wrote:
> 
> > 'twas brillig when Richard Hartman scrobe:
> > >  I don't know that a chemical process qualifies as a Technical 
> > > Protection Measure under the DMCA.
> > 
> > I think it's pretty clear that it does not qualify. Look at 
> the statute. 
> > A TPM "'effectively controls access to a work' if the 
> measure, in the 
> > ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of 
> > information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the 
> > copyright owner, to gain access to the work"
> > 
> > The self-erasing DVD does not require the application of 
> information or 
> > a process to accomplish its self-erasing function. All it 
> requires is 
> > exposure to the air.
> > 
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