I put most of my stuff in iTunes, I could get an iTunes digital copy with it's DRM for a 2GB SD (480) version of the film, nevermind that it costs the same as buying the disk or more.
But if I rip it myself (Purely of the movies that I own & for me & my house only) I can get a higher quality Video, 5.1/7.1 Surround sound &, after tagging it myself, more complete tags at 1080 for just over 2GB & an SD copy at 480 with Dolby/ProLogic sound for 400-800MB. Granted a 2hr movie will take 7hrs to transcode at 1080 & 3-5hr at 480, but I'm not gonna pay more for less.
If Apple gets a clue & offers their Digital Copies at a better compression, since they only have to transcode it once for thousands of downloads, & complete tags I'll buy them, but now I download the digital copy into iTunes, then replace it with the ones I make myself.
DRMs aren't MY problem in concept, but I hate them nonetheless because they want to take more space to save them a few minutes & you have to buy a bigger HDD.
Well, technically you aren't allowed to sell a movie you've watched. I think if it's still shrink-wrapped you'd just be a retailer even if you don't have a retail license. But the way the law actually is written says that you don't own the movie, you own a license to view the movie.
If you look you'll see that they always say they are for private home use only, meaning that if you showed it outside of your home you're in violation.
The way this works in the law is that you are buying the right to watch the movie, that money goes to the studio, if a store buys the movie but never opens it, it has never used that right to view, so it can be transferred to someone else & the studio still gets paid for that viewing. Once you've watched the movie you've 'activated' your viewing right like a 'redemption code'. Once the redemption code for an iTunes or UV copy have been used they can only be used again by the account that activated it.
So if you sell your old VHS tapes or DVDs you are making money on that sale, but the studio is not.
Fortunately they don't press very hard on this issue. The reason they don't is because 'technically' by the same laws, you own the right to view the movie, so if you had a VHS of Independence Day & the tape was damaged because it was watched so many times they'd be required to replace it for a minimal fee, & once they stop making VHS players they would be required to convert them to a supported format at the cost of the media (the DVD) only, which would be 4-12?
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I put most of my stuff in iTunes, I could get an iTunes digital copy with it's DRM for a 2GB SD (480) version of the film, nevermind that it costs the same as buying the disk or more.
But if I rip it myself (Purely of the movies that I own & for me & my house only) I can get a higher quality Video, 5.1/7.1 Surround sound &, after tagging it myself, more complete tags at 1080 for just over 2GB & an SD copy at 480 with Dolby/ProLogic sound for 400-800MB. Granted a 2hr movie will take 7hrs to transcode at 1080 & 3-5hr at 480, but I'm not gonna pay more for less.
If Apple gets a clue & offers their Digital Copies at a better compression, since they only have to transcode it once for thousands of downloads, & complete tags I'll buy them, but now I download the digital copy into iTunes, then replace it with the ones I make myself.
DRMs aren't MY problem in concept, but I hate them nonetheless because they want to take more space to save them a few minutes & you have to buy a bigger HDD.
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Well, technically you aren't allowed to sell a movie you've watched. I think if it's still shrink-wrapped you'd just be a retailer even if you don't have a retail license. But the way the law actually is written says that you don't own the movie, you own a license to view the movie.
If you look you'll see that they always say they are for private home use only, meaning that if you showed it outside of your home you're in violation.
The way this works in the law is that you are buying the right to watch the movie, that money goes to the studio, if a store buys the movie but never opens it, it has never used that right to view, so it can be transferred to someone else & the studio still gets paid for that viewing. Once you've watched the movie you've 'activated' your viewing right like a 'redemption code'. Once the redemption code for an iTunes or UV copy have been used they can only be used again by the account that activated it.
So if you sell your old VHS tapes or DVDs you are making money on that sale, but the studio is not.
Fortunately they don't press very hard on this issue. The reason they don't is because 'technically' by the same laws, you own the right to view the movie, so if you had a VHS of Independence Day & the tape was damaged because it was watched so many times they'd be required to replace it for a minimal fee, & once they stop making VHS players they would be required to convert them to a supported format at the cost of the media (the DVD) only, which would be 4-12?