Space Shifting DVDs to Cost Extra?

Depending on who you listen to Steve Jobs has supposedly been pitching the idea of selling "premium" DVDs that would include an extra fee for the privilege of transferring your legally-purchased DVD to a different device. "The courts have held that "space-shifting" your CDs to a portable music device is a fair use. So you can legally import your CD collection to your iPod, or any other device, without paying a penny. But Steve Jobs apparently wants to charge you $4 for the privilege of doing the same with your DVDs."

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Re:For that price...

[orclevegam]

I'm still waiting for the ability to re-download already purchased music from itunes. If they added that ability, itunes would be my exclusive source of music.

It's been a while since I've used iTunes, but it was my understanding that it already had that ability, although with a catch. You're limited to downloading something like I think 5 copies (might or might not be over a certain time period), so if you tend to switch systems often you'd probably run out of downloads pretty quickly.

Re:"supposedly", "apparently"

[smellsofbikes]

>but have you ever considered only linking to articles that have, I don't know, actual facts? Instead of rumor and innuendo to drive Apple bashing for Page Hits.

Yeah, that's great. While we're at it, let's not teach evolution until it's proven beyond a doubt. Ditto gravity: why are we talking about it when we haven't even detected gravitons?

The thing is: sometimes you have to make decisions on what to do and how to react, based on the best available information at the time, and *sometimes* that information isn't in the form of actual facts. Hence much of our current debate on global warming, or the United States and its entry into the Iraq War a couple years back.

If you wait for actual facts, by the time you have your actual facts, the train's left the station. If you read about something and think the coverage is reasonably reliable, you can actually start supporting or opposing something when there's still a chance of making a difference.