Cranky Callers to Target Disney

wired news ^ | 8.13.03 | Katie Dean

[freepatriot32]

Angry at Disney's plans to sell disposable DVD movies, environmentalists plan to dump their grievances on CEO Michael Eisner in a massive phone protest Wednesday.

Hundreds of students from around the country will call Eisner to discourage the sale of these throwaway DVDs, and urge the company to abandon the product, according to the protest's organizers.

[freepatriot32]

"Do they realize how much plastic they will be adding to the landfills?"

Besides the fact that 90 percent of all lanfill materials are GLASS and only around 11 percent are plastic just the fact that these groups are pissed off at disney about this is an admission that they are total failures as enviromentlists.They know for a fact that they themselves will never recycle these disk s so they just assume no one else in america will either.Because they are as big of hypocrites as barbra streisand thats the real message behind this campaign against disney

[Phantom Lord]

Hundreds of students from around the country will call Eisner to discourage the sale of these throwaway DVDs, and urge the company to abandon the product, according to the protest's organizers.

Because people with jobs and living in the real world don't have time for such nonsense.

[CJ Wolf]

yeah but glass is natural...

[stainlessbanner]

They should collect them and send the old DVD's to Disney like that guy did with AOL CD's.

[CygnusXI]

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Trash our society and souls (Gay daze) = OK!
Disposable DVD's, hurt the muther erth = TEH EVIL-- Must call!!

[BerniesFriend]

Hundreds of students from around the country will call Eisner to discourage the sale of these throwaway DVDs, and urge the company to abandon the product, according to the protest's organizers.

Because people with jobs and living in the real world don't have time for such nonsense.

Well said..I am amazed and envious of people who have so much free time for so little a problem..

[Grig]

"Do they realize how much plastic they will be adding to the landfills?"

So when will they go after AOL? I've tossed out at least enough free AOL CD's to build a coffee table with.

[glock rocks]

lemme see if I have this right... these misguided junior envirowhacks are causing disney inc. heartburn?

and the problem with this is???

[July 4th]

I guess everyone hates Disney now. Except for the gays.

[Smittie]

How long before Disney only sells vanishing DVDs of all their movies so they'll have to be repurchased over & over?
I don't support anything this greedy, immoral company does, starting with ABC.

[Grig]

This is going to result in a sharp increase for DVD-R burners.

1. Open EZ-D
2. Rip to hard drive (striping off CSS, region coding and macrovision in the process)
3. Burn to DVD-R
4. Enjoy movie forever.

[5by5]

So how much energy is used returning the traditional DVDs to the rental store?

Seems like throwawy DVDs might actually be the evironmentally friendly solution?!

[Petronski]

...is set to market movies like The Hot Chick...

Ideally a dvd like "The Hot Chick" would expire before it could be viewed.

BOYCOTT DISNEY: a vortex of seductive evil™

[Theo]

I was thinking the same exact thing. How difficult would it be to just make a non-self-destructing copy of the DVD?

[eyespysomething]

shhhhhhh...

[RippleFire]

bump

[DeFault User]

I was thinking the same exact thing. How difficult would it be to just make a non-self-destructing copy of the DVD?

I don't have a DVD burner but I certainly would find it easy to hook up some RCA plugs between the DVD player and the VCR. Not too tough.

[.cnI redruM]

Well let's see....they've replaced Mickey Mouse with Gerry the Butt-Gerbil, but we could all still just get along. Now that they produce trashy entertainment on trashy DVD disks, that just goes over the line.

[Sloth]

When the time expires, bonding resin on the DVD reacts with the air around it, making the DVD unreadable.

I wonder... If you leave one of these in your player, will it leave resin byproduct gunk in the disc tray, on the laser emitter, etc.?

I'd never buy one anyhow.