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I fully agree with this lawsuit. I felt OK with "purchasing" movies from Apple at the Blu-Ray retail price, because I was under the impression that my files remain mine so that if I backup them correctly, I can watch the movie later.

By now, I know that this isn't the case. If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have paid full price for a limited digital copy. Instead, I would have purchased the Blu-Ray which - if you treat it well - will last far longer than my digital movies did, despite backups and stuff.



If I put money in a bank, it is fungible; I can move it to another bank, another account, another person.

If I buy a license to play a video game on Steam, I only own that license on Steam with one account (with some exceptions and provisions for gifting etc).

If I buy a license to for a movie on iTunes, I only own that license on iTunes tied to one account.

Will consumers band together and demand that their media licenses be fungible?

In other words, how many things are 'accidental banks'


If you purchase and download a movie you can copy it, back it up, and watch it whenever you want as many times as you want.

The lawsuit is about repeated downloads and streaming after the copyright owner has removed the movie for sale.


But can you copy a movie out of iTunes onto, say, an external HD? I thought Apple used DRM for purchased media.


They use DRM, but movies and TV shows are downloaded as regular movie files. You can move and copy them to wherever you want.

Downloaded movie files can be played using either iTunes or the QuickTime Player, copied to an iOS device, or streamed to an Apple TV box.


Can you play them without first-party Apple software? Would you say they're acting as a true vendor in this sense?




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