IBM Files DVD Spam Patent Application 170
An anonymous reader writes "Mark Wilson of Gizmodo.com reports that IBM is applying for a patent for DVDs that contain or download 'on demand' commercials that cannot be skipped. Consumers would be able to purchase these DVDs at a lower price than regular DVDs and pay extra to enjoy their purchase ad-free without having to buy a second DVD. Perhaps this is part of the massive shift in advertising that IBM predicts."
Re:Spam? (Score:5, Funny)
Wow that's great (Score:2, Funny)
Opportunity for profit! (Score:1, Funny)
2 - set up a server of your own, serving 0.5 seconds of not-advertising insterad of all the crappy ads the manufacturer intended.
3 - Use hosts file or simlar cleverness to redirect DVDs to the fake server.
4 - ????
5 - PROFIT!!!
DVD players with guns (Score:3, Funny)
Recursive Advertising (Score:2, Funny)
Shortly after the system goes online, it will start downloading adverts for more advert-infested DVDs. Disks will start multiplying exponentially, the world will plunge behind an event horizon, and the universe will be sucked into a supermassive black-hole of infinite advertising.
Much the same kind of thing happened when they started printing adverts for breakfast cereal on packets of breakfast cereal.
Re:Where do I sign up? (Score:1, Funny)