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RE: [dvd-discuss] Disney Does Self Destructing DVDs
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- Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] Disney Does Self Destructing DVDs
- From: "Richard Hartman" <hartman(at)onetouch.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 08:26:02 -0700
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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