This is more ridiculous than fair trade. For example Starbucks and seeing all there stupid posters of semi naked African kids running round with swollen belly's.

Trying to make you feel less guilty as you drink your coffee, knowing they paid 2 extra penny's for a bag of coffee beans.

That little Abeni's problems will now all be solved. His family will now have the biggest mud hut in the village with two extra bits of grain.

And how about them energy saving light bulbs that take 10 minutes to come on? Yeah that's why there energy saving cause you have to wait 10 mins before they come on.

You want real solutions, then get rid of all the despots, build power planets that run off fuels that don't affect our planet. And find some alternative resources to make plastics out of.

All the pioneers of the industrial revolution are probably laughing in there graves at as right now.

I voted "yay", cuz those recycled cases are a better solution for our environment, it is just a small step, but still.

Remember people we eventually killed snappers...it took a few years but...voice your opinion loud and clear to Sony

Quoting Winston Smith:

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Remember people we eventually killed snappers...it took a few years but...voice your opinion loud and clear to Sony

Actually, Sony is one of the few who does not use the recycled cases. It's primarily Warner, Lions Gate and Fox who are the culprits.

Edit: I should say Sony doesn't use it on Blu-rays, for DVDs you are correct (and for DVDs the other studios also use recycled cases as well).

That is true. Still prefer that over the cut outs, though it's offset by those damn latches... 

Every once in a while I get a DVD where only a few sections are punched out. One of my DVDs from this year has minimal slice marks so nothing could be punched out (almost like the blade just scratched it). I'm just fine with that which I guess is a reminded to me that it isn't about how strong the case is per se.

Hello.  I voted Yay.  (But considering the gravity of the issue, it would have been good to just have the more grown up options of either "Yes" or "I’m a Selfish B*****").

I just thought I’d mention that I’ve worked for a fairly large environmental charity for nearly 25 years and it sickening to see the “I’m alright Jack” attitude of many people here.  You’ve all watched "The Day After Tomorrow", "The Perfect Storm", "The Railway Children", many of you with the excellent, high definition clarity that blu-ray can offer, on really big screens too, yet you feel it’s fine to simply throw away the boxes you don’t like and then rubbish those fine people at Sony et al who are almost single-handedly trying to prevent global Armageddon.  To accuse them of doing it to save money or as a marketing ploy simply beggars belief.

Do you really want every single one of us to enjoy a very realistic 3D version of 2012 2 in our very own living rooms.  (I mean 2012: 2, or 2012: 2: 3D Edition, or 2017; whatever, dumb Rules).

Some people have claimed to actually care a tiny bit for the planet, but in fact if you cared you’d not be buying any DVDs at all, or anything else for that matter.  To buy anything at all makes you out to be a total hypocrite and only fit for ex-rental VHS on a really tiny black and white TV, running off batteries that last less than 90 minutes.  I’d love to not buy any DVDs; I’d much prefer to simply download the occasional film once or twice a year, but I have a very serious medical condition which means I have to buy them, even if I don’t get around to watching them for years.  I’ve got an excuse, you haven’t.

Anyway, it clearly says in the Rules:

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In all circumstances, (unless you don't like this Rule, in which case you can ignore it or make up your own one), the Bonus DVD Case box should be ticked to indicate you have throw away the original and replaced it with a new one made from 5,000 barrels of pure, best quality, Middle Eastern oil, if the Original Case included recycle symbol shaped holes or raised embossements, or was otherwise made of recycled materials, (which must be supported by documented evidence if not indicated in the credit block or under the disc’s label which must be scraped off with a really sharp, pointed knife).

 

So really, what’s the problem?  Just learn to live with the hole you’ve just accidently made in the sleeve with your finger, to match the hole in the box.  In fact contribute these to the database as they’ll probably more accurately reflect the versions of the covers that most people will end up having.  Oh, and yes bring back snapper cases too; they were mostly made of cardboard and made a very satisfying snapping noise when you closed them, (until they stopped working after the third time of opening).  The nasty, cheap click that keep cases emit makes my teeth stand on end.

I really do work for an environmental charity.

There are plenty of things that we can do to help the environment that would be much more effective:

- Shut down all factories
- Dismantle anything that uses electricity to be reused in a different way (like using your keyboard as part of a boat paddle.)
- Stop using all products that have even a single small part that was created by a machine, but don't recycle them either (other than reusing them as is) because that requires energy as well that pollutes the planet which was why the factories were shut down

...but that would inconvenience every person who lives using technology (as opposed to only living off of the land) who are steadily saying we need to do more to protect the environment   It's easy to do little things, but bigger things are more helpful. As a friend of mine once joked, "Do you really want to help protect the environment? Then get off the Internet."


I'm all for promoting things like recycling and cleaner energy, but I also say that my wanting to replace DVD cases that have holes in them isn't even an issue in the big scheme of things that could be done (like those above) since the case I want to replace it with already exists.

So, I still vote "nah"



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