A recent experience I had was :

1. buy movie on iTunes 2. have kids that can't do long distance drives 3. obtain dvd players for car 4. realized I can't play films that I "bought" on DVD players

It feels like the "Buy" button on iTunes/Apple TV is misleading, and should be renamed to "License to watch on Apple devices". Obvious in hindsight, but this type of DRM severely restricts use cases.

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lucaspiller an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Netflix has the same problem. Downloaded some TV shows for my daughter to watch while we were travelling. Worked fine on the plane, arrived to the hotel, connected to WiFi "This content is not available in your location". Ok, disconnect, don't need wifi. Same message, "This content is not available in your location".

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cheeze an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

While I agree with you in spirit... were you expecting that you could... burn the film to a DVD or something?

Of course buying a movie on itunes means you can only watch it on capable devices. You can't play a youtube video on a VHS player either.

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IanCal an hour ago | parent | next [-]

While I agree it seems obvious you can’t do that, based on how these platforms have limited things for a long time… but that really should be something you can do.

Why can’t I get the file and put it on another device? Why can’t I burn it to a dvd? It makes sense that Apple aren’t required to make more software for random devices, but why can’t I have the file and do what I want with it?

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kobieps an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not at all (hence saying "obvious in hindsight"). Simply pointing out that, at the time, my purchasing decision wasn't influenced by how many use cases it would restrict.

Also, IIRC, there was a period where you could burn Audio CDs from music that you purchased on iTunes.

edit: turns out music purchased on iTunes is DRM-free!

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cassianoleal an hour ago | parent [-]

> there was a period where you could burn Audio CDs from music that you purchased on iTunes.

Music purchased on iTunes is DRM-free, so you can definitely burn CDs with them.

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kobieps an hour ago | parent [-]

Ah very nice. I suppose it makes sense that music is DRM-free but films aren't

	▲	rkagerer 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I suppose it makes sense that music is DRM-free but films aren't Why?

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rkagerer 22 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Of course b̵u̵y̵i̵n̵g̵ licensing a movie on itunes...