Single-play DVDs? It's a hoax

Sorry about my previous post just found out that single play dvds were a hoax...

On the Internet, a hoax can spread just as fast as a genuine news story. That’s the lesson from the bogus story published in an obscure UK business magazine yesterday that claimed Microsoft is about to unleash a new single-play DVD format.

Paul Thurrott reprinted the story without giving credit to the original source. Bink.nu picked up the story from Paul and reprinted it verbatim.

Techdirt commented on the original story, with attribution but without any fact-checking. So did John Walkenbach.

The funny part? There’s no truth to the story. None whatsoever. In fact, the original story sparked a flurry of e-mails around Microsoft as people in different groups tried to figure out where on earth this story came from. After the head-scratching stopped, a spokesmen told me, they concluded that the story was not true. “It appears to be confusing an existing feature within Windows Media DRM that allows for single-play of promotional digital material. This has been an option for content owners to use for some time for the Windows Media format - it does not apply to MPEG2 content found on DVDs.”

Downloaded content in the Windows Media format can be DRM-protected, and if the content owner wants to limit it to a specific number of plays, or to set an expiration date for the content, that’s an option, just as it is with subscription-based music services. But it’s only one of many options, and it has nothing to do with DVDs.

So, case closed. The single-play DVD format can go back to the 1990s, where it rightfully belongs.

:source: Source: http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=1061

Wasnt there already some self destruct dvd's. Like in 24 hours they would fog up or something causing them to be unreadable

they would go opaque so the laser couldnt read the disc havent heard anything about those in a long time

Thanks neotheone ,for taking the time to post the retraction ? :)

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Originally Posted by McStabhappy

they would go opaque so the laser couldnt read the disc havent heard anything about those in a long time

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but couldnt you like put it in your computer and rip it before it did? Those things cost like 3 bucks. :D

doubt it would catch on though,,,

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Originally Posted by kanaywali

doubt it would catch on though,,,

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Maybe that was the idea behind the hoax... an indirect way to gauge public opinion... :blink:

I think the results should be fairly unanimous! :cool: