> 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.