They’ve become quite common in the uk over the last year or so too.

I believe it’s intended to make the material easier to process for recycling. Something about very small pieces of plastic (like loose bottle caps) being tough to properly sort at the plant, so they wanted a way for them to stay with the bottle instead.

That’s just the reality of ‘adult’ being the most common euphemism for porn in English, as in ‘adult films’. It’s not going anywhere.

On the other hand, this is Valve capitulating to PayPal and removing games from sale for everyone because a payment provider didn’t like them. Not a good precedent to set.

Loving this little nugget from the article:

the translucent CD, which was pitched as an environmentally friendly option

Ah yes, the environmentally friendly option of producing thousands of plastic disks that don’t work.

Interesting how they continue to blame the pirates, devices, DRM, and everything else they can think of, but never the fact that content is getting spread across more and more services and prices keep going up.

Their greed in chasing profits is fuelling the very problem they’re trying to fight.