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Divx didn't corrode (there was another spec which did that). Divx was actually for most intents a DVD, not a competing technology. Though it did require a special player which had a modem inside it. When you first played a disc you had 48 hours to finish watching it. That was included in the initial price. You could play it again after paying again. If you had a disc which you wanted to play often, you could "Silver" it for a fixed price and use it in one of your players any time you wanted. There was also a higher "Gold" rate which would allow that disc to be played in any player.

The biggest problem with it (and any phone-home DRM scheme), is when the servers were finally taken off line, those Silver and Gold disc could no longer be played. CC did issue some refunds for a limited time.