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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (57121)	9/17/2006 6:46:28 PM
From: aaplfan	Respond to of 213182

But back to itunes, if they are going to support movies etc, you would think they would need to provide this handbrake facility out of box, no? No. It's not a technical issue, it's a legal issue as the DMCA does not permit Apple to do this. That's why the music industry desperately wants everyone to move to something (anything) other than Audio CD's which are not encrypted, and therefore legal to rip. In general, the media industry wants a rental model, consumers want a purchase model. The media industry has time and money to push their model (i.e. they effectively wrote the DMCA) so what the consumer wants is irrelevant as it is illegal. Expect more of the same from digital TV (encrypted signal, broadcast flag) so we're in this weird place where the technology can do what consumers want but the law won't allow it. P2P is the modern-day equivalent to the speakeasy during prohibition.