New technology! From the people who brought you the Y2K buq!
An oldie but a goodie: self-destructing DVDs, which change colour and become unusable 48 hours after being taken out of the packet. Disney was seriously considering using these for distribution in 2003, but by 2004 they had become a gimmick for promotional purposes only.There are so many things wrong with the idea of self-destructing DVDs that it's hard to know where to start. Resource wastage, for one. Failure to understand that consumers like to keep things. And - unless it takes forty-nine hours to copy the disc - how does it stop piracy?
Now, a DVD that self-destructs immediately as soon as the packet is opened, that would be the ticket! And you just know that some media company executive is dreaming about it right now.
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