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*WARNING*
I warn against the use of this instructable for illegal activity. I have provided this information for learning and entertainment use only. I take no legal or moral responsibilty for your actions.
Now that that is out of the way, some backstory. I started this project when my Dad bought dvd's from a Hollywood Video that was about an hour away, brought them home, and found that the cashier had left in the security bar that keeps you from opening the box. After tearing apart one box, utterly destroying it, i figured out a better way.
This is my first instructable. I will be trying to improve my skills as i continue to produce further articles.
I warn against the use of this instructable for illegal activity. I have provided this information for learning and entertainment use only. I take no legal or moral responsibilty for your actions.
Now that that is out of the way, some backstory. I started this project when my Dad bought dvd's from a Hollywood Video that was about an hour away, brought them home, and found that the cashier had left in the security bar that keeps you from opening the box. After tearing apart one box, utterly destroying it, i figured out a better way.
This is my first instructable. I will be trying to improve my skills as i continue to produce further articles.
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Signing UpStep 1Gather Your Materials
First off, gather your materials. They are:
A movie with the red thing inside it (image two)
An incredibly strong magnet
A smaller but still strong magnet
The incredibly strong magnet was hard to come by for me. I tried making an electromagnet, but i couldn't get it strong enough. I don't have the money to go out or order from one of those retailers, so i spent two afternoons drilling through an old 3 gig hard drive (i told you it was old). The magnets inside harddrives are amazingly strong, so strong they can chip and break if you let them snap together, so be careful. The smaller magnets i bought at a Storables. Just look for any office supply store and look around the whiteboards.
A movie with the red thing inside it (image two)
An incredibly strong magnet
A smaller but still strong magnet
The incredibly strong magnet was hard to come by for me. I tried making an electromagnet, but i couldn't get it strong enough. I don't have the money to go out or order from one of those retailers, so i spent two afternoons drilling through an old 3 gig hard drive (i told you it was old). The magnets inside harddrives are amazingly strong, so strong they can chip and break if you let them snap together, so be careful. The smaller magnets i bought at a Storables. Just look for any office supply store and look around the whiteboards.
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You are wrong. On at least two occasions I've bought DVDs and had to deal with these stupid things. I did the same thing he did, the first one was wrenched and pried, the second was removed with the aid of a magnet and a little more finesse. I just wish that I'd written an instructable to help other people who had the misfortune to be served by a hungover teen at HMV.
Criminals already know how to do all this and more! By not sharing this information, the only people you harm are non-criminals.
Now, if he were teaching people how to line a bag with aluminium foil to prevent the security induction loops at the door of "Hollywood Video" from detecting that you'd filled it with DVDs...that would be another matter!
Even then, there are exceptions. For example, you can't talk about making bombs in an airport. The goverment will stop you. That's not censorship (IMO), because of the safty concerns.
Some might say that censorship is also anyone in power stopping talk about a topic they don't like. For example British Airways recently blurred out the logo of Virgin Atlantic in the version of a Bond movie they are showing on their flights.
Again, there are exceptions to this. Removing a post on a website that is clearly about something illegal in order to protect themselves, and their users, is not censorship.
Again, I'm not trying to reopen the debate on the legal or illegal uses of the information in this post. Let's say, for arguments sake, someone posted an instructable about how to get an ATM to give you extra money without taking it out of your account. That activity would clearly be illegal. It wouldn't be censorship for the powers that be here at instructables to remove it. It would be protecting themselves.
On the other hand, removing a post because it involves K'Nex would be censorship. I don't like the posts about K'Nex, and if I posted at the bottom of a comment on a K'Nex thread "I hate K'Nex posts. I hope this gets deleted" that would be an attempt at censorship, or at least requesting/endorsing it.
All that said, what is it with Hollywood Video that they can't remember to take these things off. I mean, they sell DVD's all day long, right? It must cost them money to replace the ones the forget to take off. Not to mention the customers they lose over it. It's not that hard, people.
Again, this has nothing to do with my previous or current opinions about this particular instructable, and I don't want to start that all over again. I'm just out to point out what the Freedom of Information act actually is all about.