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[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Did any company ever used DRM to disable physical media remotely? Is this even technically possible?

[-] Salty_Chinchilla@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Not exactly what you're asking about, but this comes to mind

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexplay

[-] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 9 months ago

DIVX kinda worked like that. You'd rent a disc and it'd work for a few days and then stop. You could pay for a few more days, or pay more to make it permanent.

It sucked and was one facet in Circuit City's slow motion collapse (good riddance).

[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I'd argue that that's still better that that shutting-down-digital-purchases deal, because with DIVX (and Flexplay, which was mentioned in another reply) you'd at least know in advance, before you buy, exactly how long you have to watch the DVD. Much better than buying things to add to your backlog and having them taken off the digital library before you get to consume them.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

that was the big problem with “online only” games that people fought against when it first started. Now people just accept that their physical media is just a rental

Xbox one is an example of this, the server is still up so if you get a new one then you can still update it into a usable state, but once that server goes down then any not updated to their no longer always online patch it is junk

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