When you buy media, you acquire no rights anyways. When you buy a song off iTunes and you use that in a broadcast show or for profit, you are in heavy violation of copyrights. And sure, we have the right to backup our media or transcode it to play on our iPod for personal use, but you technically still have no rights. I'm kind torn on this. I'm an Apple fanboy, but yet another DRM scheme doesn't sit well with me. If Disney can get together with all or even most of the other studios, and this is both a physical and digital medium, than I think we'll all grow to accept it.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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When you buy media, you acquire no rights anyways. When you buy a song off iTunes and you use that in a broadcast show or for profit, you are in heavy violation of copyrights. And sure, we have the right to backup our media or transcode it to play on our iPod for personal use, but you technically still have no rights. I'm kind torn on this. I'm an Apple fanboy, but yet another DRM scheme doesn't sit well with me. If Disney can get together with all or even most of the other studios, and this is both a physical and digital medium, than I think we'll all grow to accept it.
-Brian