[TheForge] Abana Tape rentals

[Demon Buddha]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:51:29 -0600, <xlch58@swbell.net> wrote:

> There is a company that have invented a DVD that self destructs after a 
> couple of days once it is exposed to air.   You rent it by mail, open it 
> when you want to watch it and then it self destructs on its own like 
> mission impossible.   I heard this was in trial somewhere.

	I suspect this will fail in the market, if for no other reason
	that I can copy the disk onto permanent media.  This product may
	have some niche market, but I seriously doubt it will succeed at
	large.  Just think of the incalculable waste such a product
	represents, as if we were not wasteful enough as it is.  For
	this reason alone I hope it fails at large as I find such waste
	to be inexcusable.