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Where the failed promise of Managed Copy on Blu-ray and HD DVD left us all hanging, Apple, iTunes, and Fox have oddly picked up the pieces. As paradoxically quietly announced at this week's Jobsnote, the new Family Guy Presents Blue Harvest DVD comes with an included movie file that one can pull off the disc onto their machine -- but only by making use of an included code (and a copy of iTunes with a valid account, of course), which ensures the DRM is still there. What's unclear is whether the movie file is DRMed before being pulled off the disc, or is encrypted specific to one's account during the process of download from the disc. Ultimately these details won't change the fact that iTunes Digital Copy is a ripe target for people who wants to legitimately buy their media, yet doesn't think it should be friggin' rights managed. Crazy, we know.
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Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Video
Tags: apple, fox, itunes, itunes digital copy, ItunesDigitalCopy, macworld 2008, Macworld2008
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Jeff @ Jan 16th 2008 11:48PM
This is the equivalent of putting a Fairplay-laden set of AAC files on a CD.
Why would you bother when you can rip your own un-DRM'd mp3's?
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John @ Jan 17th 2008 12:02AM
Well, the thing is that technically you aren't allowed to rip the movie, and many people don't know how to do it on their own. And since they get it just as a bonus, you really can't complain about it. I mean, it's better than nothing. If they were selling you an Apple-playable only file on a disk, then sure, that would be a ripoff, but you can still play the DVD as usual.
It sucks that you can't just get a regular copy since all it really does is stop people who legitimately own the media from getting a copy, but still, this is at least A Step in the Right Direction.
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roflercopterer @ Jan 17th 2008 12:22AM
"Well the thing is that technically you aren't allowed to rip the movie"
I don't know to which technicality you are referring, but the thing is that LEGALLY you ARE allowed to rip the movie, and legal trumps technical.
It's called Fair Use. Look it up.
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Ryan @ Jan 17th 2008 12:27AM
roflercopterer,
The DMCA overrode Fair Use and it is Illegal to circumvent and copy protection on DVD's (which all commercial dvd's have). Look it up
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Student Driver @ Jan 16th 2008 11:50PM
Hmm, sounds like it would be "better" to simply buy the movie anyway, and when you want a rip get it from Usenet. So, you own the movie and your download isn't enabling others to download it (like typical torrent clients).
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Carbonize @ Jan 17th 2008 12:04AM
So just another way to try and force people to install iTunes.
Bought an iPhone? Need iTunes to activate it.
Bought this film? Need iTunes to play the digital copy on your computer.
Sounds like an antitrust case in the making. To be fair they should of made it an avi then it can be played on every OS out there without the need to install a third party app.
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walter @ Jan 17th 2008 12:09AM
um they did, there is also a WMP version. so you can use it with itunes, on macs. and pc's, or wmp on pc's
I bought the dvd to try it out, it was awsome and super easy, then after i went....WWOOOOO I just bought a DVD, first DVD i have ever bought. now that says something.
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Carbonize @ Jan 17th 2008 12:13AM
According to the story you can only pull the file off of this particular film if you have iTunes and an active iTunes account.
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walter @ Jan 17th 2008 1:01AM
well I have a copy and it supports WMP, also the original story this article is based on also talks about WMP
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Carbonize @ Jan 17th 2008 2:30AM
Yes as I said in a later comment I now see that you do not need iTunes just that this story was badly written.
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David @ Jan 17th 2008 12:06AM
What's on the disk is just the interface to enter the code. When you put the disk in (on a mac anyway), it will open iTunes and attempt to connect to the iTunes store. Once you enter the code, it will download the movie into iTunes from presumably the iTunes store. I got an 11556 error for about 2 hours last night before it would work (I think the store was just being hammered), but after that it downloaded fine and looks great with just very minor interlacing occasionally.
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