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Originally Posted by kezza
Before DivX was the pirate's format of choice, it was Disney's self-destructing, disposable DVD format. This was back in 1998 or 99. You had to buy a special player for Disney DivX discs, and they would only play a certain number of times, within a pre-set time frame before they became unplayable.
So DivX was the DRM monster before it died as a consumer electronics format and became the de facto standard for pirates everywhere.
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You're conflating two different systems with unfortunately similar-sounding names. Circuit City (not the mouse) was the perpetrator of the DIVX format of "no need to return them"
disks.
DivX (as in the format) is a completely unrelated thing.
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