Without laws to force companies to honor this, The only reasonable answer to this ownership issue will end up being piracy. Also, “Buying” the movie and making a copy of it for personal use shouldn’t be illegal.
Without laws to force companies to honor this, The only reasonable answer to this ownership issue will end up being piracy. Also, “Buying” the movie and making a copy of it for personal use shouldn’t be illegal.
> Also, “Buying” the movie and making a copy of it for personal use shouldn’t be illegal.
Unless I missed something recently, it's not illegal. You've always had the right to make backups of content that you purchased legally. It's the distribution that has been illegal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A... outlaws circumvention of DRM.
It is legal to rip a digital copy of a movie you purcahsed from itunes to your hard drive?
I would have assumed it would have at least been against whatever TOC you agreed to when signing up to itunes.