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I was talking to Mrs Ploppy about it earlier, and she said that she used to get self destructing videos tapes in the 90s when she was doing market research work. If you rewound the tape, it would stop working. This looks like it to me: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4842217.html |
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So they want to make money. Money's good, I like money. I also like freedom. I'm not ready to give up freedom because someone's buisness model is being threatened. I don't want to give up the same access to things Dickens and Shakespeare had. I don't want my data searched through at international borders to see if I paid for every song on my ipod. I don't want two kids acting out a scene form their favorite movie taken off of youtube. I don't even want that gods awful Mary Sue fanfiction taken down. I don't want a $150k judgment or any judgment for someone saying hey you need to check out this band and emailing an mp3 to a friend. I don't want people removed from the internet because they've been accused of infringement. I don't want it to be illegal to backup and format shift because some media exec decided to ROT13 a file. And finally I don't want to face a lawsuit when I end with this final quote. I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore! |
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The DCMA made DRM circumvention in the US a criminal act.
Many, if not most, of the users on this forum who live in the US are criminals, if they remove the drm on ebooks. edit: (Actually, that should say that ALL of the users in the US are criminals if they remove digital locks, there is no "fair use" exemption). Last edited by vaughnmr; 06-06-2010 at 09:31 PM. |
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The following article in the National Post doesn't directly cite eBooks, but attempts to explain:
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As I recall, the screeners for one of the James Bond films (Tomorrow Never Dies?) were self-destructing DVDs. It was billed as very James Bondish, but the idea was that they didn't have to worry about promotional materials ending up on torrent sites or sold at flea markets, as happens almost constantly still. At the time, there was major interest by Blockbuster for a mail program, a la Netflix, so that they don't have to worry about returns, worn out discs, lost in the mail, etc. You mail a disc to a customer, and forget about it.
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The original DIVX was an attempt by Circuit City to circumvent DVD rental stores. The idea was that you bought a DIVX DVD for about $4, and you played it on your DIVX-enabled DVD player (that you bought from Circuit City) which was connected to a telephone line, and 48 hours after you started playing it, it quit playing. If you wanted to buy extra hours, you could do that, and you could pay a fee that converted the DIVX to "gold" status that would let you play it whenever you wanted.
The idea went down in flames in record time, maybe 8 months or so, costing Circuit City over $100 million. The self-destructing DVDs were air-activated. They came in an airtight pack and they started self-destructing upon opening. I don't know exactly how long they could be played before they became unreadable. I have one that I bought SOLELY as a collector's item for, as I recall, about $8. They were sold at grocery stores and other mass market outlets, had major backing from Disney and other studios, and died the death of a rabid dog on a playground. Let's face it, folks: This sh*t don't work. Get over it. Sell a product at a reasonable price, make it easy to obtain legally, face the fact that some people will steal it no matter what you do, and make your money from the honest people who compose most of society. IMHO, of course! |
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