[TheForge] Abana Tape rentals

Fri Oct 31 23:34:00 2003

What about the new plastic I saw on the news, biodegradeable, dissolves in
water in minutes, that would just leave the coating, which I guess is still
a bit nasty...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Demon Buddha" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Abana Tape rentals

> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:51:29 -0600, <[email protected]> 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.
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