This DVD Will Self-Destruct in 48 Hours

Jacob Sullum | 7.21.2003 3:03 AM

Disney is test marketing a DVD that becomes unwatchable two days after you open it. It's not clear how this new technology will work with movies that were unwatchable to begin with.

Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason. He is the author, most recently, of Beyond Control: Drug Prohibition, Gun Regulation, and the Search for Sensible Alternatives (Prometheus Books).