Does anybody else see the inclusion of digital copies of movies on DVDs as a little bit "this is so 2005" by the movie studios?
I've been using HandBrake for a little over a year now. If they would've had a version for PC longer, they might have become the Napster of this decade. Obviously such software (along with MacTheRipper) can be used for quite illegal activities. However, there are people like me who use it for what is (or what should be) the totally legal process of taking movies I paid for and putting them in another format so I can take them with me.
I'm not trying to steal from the movie studios. I like buying the DVDs still because they're more often cheaper than the iTunes videos (I rarely spend more than $10 on DVDs) and you aren't shorted all the extra features. I also have a hard copy backup that I can store and play, well, everywhere that has a DVD player.
Napster eventually died (seriously, who uses it?) but led to the advent of iTunes. I'm hoping that Apple will figure out some way to knock sense into the movie studios and make it easier for us to make our own digital copies. We could obviously go nuts with sharing music illegally, but contrary to what Steve Ballmer says, I'm pretty sure most of us don't throw 20GB of songs on Kazaa.
(If movie studio people are reading, other things that can be used for illegal purposes but are themselves illegal: guns, knives, cars, bags, anything that goes into a bomb, computers.)
I've been using HandBrake for a little over a year now. If they would've had a version for PC longer, they might have become the Napster of this decade. Obviously such software (along with MacTheRipper) can be used for quite illegal activities. However, there are people like me who use it for what is (or what should be) the totally legal process of taking movies I paid for and putting them in another format so I can take them with me.
I'm not trying to steal from the movie studios. I like buying the DVDs still because they're more often cheaper than the iTunes videos (I rarely spend more than $10 on DVDs) and you aren't shorted all the extra features. I also have a hard copy backup that I can store and play, well, everywhere that has a DVD player.
Napster eventually died (seriously, who uses it?) but led to the advent of iTunes. I'm hoping that Apple will figure out some way to knock sense into the movie studios and make it easier for us to make our own digital copies. We could obviously go nuts with sharing music illegally, but contrary to what Steve Ballmer says, I'm pretty sure most of us don't throw 20GB of songs on Kazaa.
(If movie studio people are reading, other things that can be used for illegal purposes but are themselves illegal: guns, knives, cars, bags, anything that goes into a bomb, computers.)