Why I HATE DRM

[Rodrigo Girao]

 

[direkiller]

The thing is, when you buy something digitally (iTunes or otherwise) you don't actually own it. You have the information and all of the same 1's and 0's you would have if you owned the actual film but you don't actually own the film. If you really want the movie, your best bet is to just buy it on disc. If you want it to be portable, that's why your PC has a disc drive. If you buy digital, you're just pissing away your cash.

Yes I do not own it however there are certain laws that do let you mod/crack/backup things if it dose not lead to outer party breaching there copyright(DMCA). It is completely legal to pirate/mod something you have a licence to if the software is too restrictive/incomparable to work on your system.

basically its only piracy if your "willfully and for purposes of commercial advantage and private financial gain, circumvented a technological measure that effectively controlled access to a copyrighted work" IE moding/pirating a licence you have not payed for.

To the OP
Go ahead and find a copy that will work for you.
They got there money and you can watch the movie the way you want.

 

[direkiller]

I think your problem lies within the format of the file you got from ITunes (VLC, while really awesome, does not play certain file types well)

You can convert file types, there's a bunch of programs online that do it.

(Also: Am I the only person who is fine with ITunes? I've never had a problem with it, although I do prefer VLC)

It's causing my video to lag out at times and "skip" like a scratched disc would and the interface in my opinion is just bad. Not to mention all the other apple things that come packaged with it, like a constant process that I can't get rid of called "AppleMobileDeviceHelper.exe" I just can't stand it, it's a massive CPU hog and one thing I make sure of with all my media players is low CPU usage(VLC and Foobar2000 are my media players right now, very minimalistic)

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Well neither is buying the physical copy really, the people who bought VHS tapes that have started dying off because of age, they can't get them replaced or trade them in for DVD copies or anything. You OWN the disc/tape, but not whats on it, you can't make copies of it, or do anything with it really.

Sure you can copy it: There are digital conversion kits and ways of hooking up VCRs to DVD players so as to copy the the information from a tape to a disc. You've been able to do that for music tapes/CDs too. It's much easier to put a CD onto your computer and use just about every form of MP3 player to watch it and not only do you have the CD but you have copies of that same CD on anything you use as an MP3 player. It's different with DVDs of course but I'm sure the principle is the same when you use content recorded on a DVD-R (like a home movie or something) As for an actual movie, many DVDs come with codes that give you digital copies. The problem with those is that they almost always favor the iPod etc.

Rambling: point is you can convert tapes to disc, owning all content on all mediums or rather, those copies of said content.

edit: broken tapes are irreplaceable. Just got that last edit. Tapes that are in-tact are capable for conversion though and, discs are capable of re-surfacing assuming of course you can find a place that does that.

If I remember correctly, it's technically illegal to rip DVD's to your computer or copy them, and it was also illegal to copy tapes or convert them to DVDs

Nope
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealNetworks,_Inc._v._DVD_Copy_Control_Association,_Inc.
from the final ruleing
"while it may well be fair use for an individual consumer to store a backup copy of a personally owned DVD on that individual's computer, a federal law has nonetheless made it illegal to manufacture or traffic in a device or tool that permits a consumer to make such copies."

So tape>DVD=Fair use
selling something that dose it is illegal(so your fine the original manufacture is in trouble)

 

[Jennacide]

Welcome to why I have pirated over half the games I legally own. I'm all for voting with your wallet, but half the time there was no advance warning about such lame DRM being placed on the game. At least with Assassin's Creed 2 I knew their DRM was down-right draconian and avoided the purchase all together, but Spore? I had NO WARNING that it'd be so fucking awful when I preordered the game, and got smacked with the worst SecuROM had to offer.

To be completely honest, iTunes file locking is lame, but nowhere near the amount of bullshit gamers have to put up with on a daily basis. And of course, it's always the publishers pushing for it, rarely the developers, though it happens. (Fuck you GSC, you used to be cool.) Justifying DRM is one of those practices that is so beyond incomprehensibly stupid it baffles me. "Let's disadvantage our paying customer base and try and stop pirates, not that we've EVER STOPPED THEM, EVER."

I'm sorry, but when Ubisoft made the most offensive DRM ever and it only took pirates 4 days to crack it, GAME FUCKING OVER. DRM was proved completely worthless. It's now just an excuse to rationalize greed, bad business practices, and going console centric, because "they don't have piracy." Which any sane person knows is a load of horseshit.