How could anyone object? I'm paying for the product. Except for the rip itself, I'm not doing anything illegal. I'm not making copies for anyone else, and the extent of my "sharing" is watching a movie I paid for with friends or family. The only difference is I'm playing it off a hard drive instead of a disc.
I wish I had the resources to mount a legal challenge to the ridiculous limits movie studios impose. What I'm doing is technically illegal, but practically and ethically it's identical to practices they deem acceptable. It's absurd.
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Three computers in our house plus one at work have used up four of my available five authorizations. I have to remember to "Deauthorize" every time I finish watching on any other computer or I won't be able to authorize anywhere else.
Obviously not insurmountable and definitely a "First-World Problem" but a pain-in-the-ass nonetheless, exacerbated by being such a pointless exercise. Anyone who wants to pirate a movie can, VERY easily. I bought an app online for $39 that strips the DRM off iTunes movies. I don't use it because it loses the 5.1 portion of the audio, but I can't imagine that being a show-stopper for someone wanting to distribute the movie to others. If they'd even bother with that. More likely they'd just rip from a disc like I do.
So what exactly is the benefit of the DRM in the first place? Nada. What is the sole, ACTUAL outcome? Inconvenience for those who PAID FOR THE PRODUCT! Stupid business model. I try not to support businesses that do stupid things to me.
EDIT: The irony of me buying a disc means paying the same people who bone me through iTunes is not lost on me.
So you've still got one left. Why not use it? If you buy a new computer, you just transfer the authorisations. If you lose one somehow, you can reset them all once a year. In fact, potentially more if you had a big problem and went to an Apple Store.
Someone did object in this thread. Start at post 139 from Relic. It gets ugly.
Different scenario. That was a discussion of PIRATING content, ie. downloading content from another user without paying the author. I'm not doing that. I object to the practice myself and refuse to do it.
What I'm doing is taking discs I purchase and transferring the content to my computer. I'm paying for the content, not stealing it. The law I'm breaking is the one that says I'm not allowed to convert the media I purchased to any other format for my own personal use, which is ridiculous. Why the hell should Universal pictures care, much less have any say in, which device I use to watch a movie for which I've paid them?
Someone did object in this thread. Start at post 139 from Relic. It gets ugly.
Different scenario. That was a discussion of PIRATING content, ie. downloading content from another user without paying the author. I'm not doing that. I object to the practice myself and refuse to do it.
What I'm doing is taking discs I purchase and transferring the content to my computer. I'm paying for the content, not stealing it. The law I'm breaking is the one that says I'm not allowed to convert the media I purchased to any other format for my own personal use, which is ridiculous. Why the hell should Universal pictures care, much less have any say in, which device I use to watch a movie for which I've paid them?
Au contrair, what Relic did was the same as you're doing: simply ripping a DVD to HDD for the ease of use. Nothing wrong with that.
Someone did object in this thread. Start at post 139 from Relic. It gets ugly.
Different scenario. That was a discussion of PIRATING content, ie. downloading content from another user without paying the author. I'm not doing that. I object to the practice myself and refuse to do it.
What I'm doing is taking discs I purchase and transferring the content to my computer. I'm paying for the content, not stealing it. The law I'm breaking is the one that says I'm not allowed to convert the media I purchased to any other format for my own personal use, which is ridiculous. Why the hell should Universal pictures care, much less have any say in, which device I use to watch a movie for which I've paid them?
Au contrair, what Relic did was the same as you're doing: simply ripping a DVD to HDD for the ease of use. Nothing wrong with that.
Yes, but some other poster kept misinterpreting what poor Relic was doing and made it sound like stealing. It wasn't.
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I'll continue buying discs and ripping them
Careful now; we don't want to wake IndyFX up...
How could anyone object? I'm paying for the product. Except for the rip itself, I'm not doing anything illegal. I'm not making copies for anyone else, and the extent of my "sharing" is watching a movie I paid for with friends or family. The only difference is I'm playing it off a hard drive instead of a disc.
I wish I had the resources to mount a legal challenge to the ridiculous limits movie studios impose. What I'm doing is technically illegal, but practically and ethically it's identical to practices they deem acceptable. It's absurd.
Someone did object in this thread. Start at post 139 from Relic. It gets ugly.
Have a great one!
So you've still got one left. Why not use it? If you buy a new computer, you just transfer the authorisations. If you lose one somehow, you can reset them all once a year. In fact, potentially more if you had a big problem and went to an Apple Store.
Apple's got you sorted!
Someone did object in this thread. Start at post 139 from Relic. It gets ugly.
Different scenario. That was a discussion of PIRATING content, ie. downloading content from another user without paying the author. I'm not doing that. I object to the practice myself and refuse to do it.
What I'm doing is taking discs I purchase and transferring the content to my computer. I'm paying for the content, not stealing it. The law I'm breaking is the one that says I'm not allowed to convert the media I purchased to any other format for my own personal use, which is ridiculous. Why the hell should Universal pictures care, much less have any say in, which device I use to watch a movie for which I've paid them?
Au contrair, what Relic did was the same as you're doing: simply ripping a DVD to HDD for the ease of use. Nothing wrong with that.
Someone did object in this thread. Start at post 139 from Relic. It gets ugly.
Different scenario. That was a discussion of PIRATING content, ie. downloading content from another user without paying the author. I'm not doing that. I object to the practice myself and refuse to do it.
What I'm doing is taking discs I purchase and transferring the content to my computer. I'm paying for the content, not stealing it. The law I'm breaking is the one that says I'm not allowed to convert the media I purchased to any other format for my own personal use, which is ridiculous. Why the hell should Universal pictures care, much less have any say in, which device I use to watch a movie for which I've paid them?
Au contrair, what Relic did was the same as you're doing: simply ripping a DVD to HDD for the ease of use. Nothing wrong with that.
Yes, but some other poster kept misinterpreting what poor Relic was doing and made it sound like stealing. It wasn't.