Fox’s Legal iTunes DVD Rip Works Great, Wastes Plastic

Click to viewAmid all of the MacBook Air hullabaloo , you might have forget about the Apple annunciation that Fox would beginproviding “ free ” iTunes versions of programme via DVD . The first release wasFamily GuyPresents : Blue Harvest , a Star Wars pasquinade . Being the brave product testers that we are , we tried it out . It was , well , kinda weird .

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You pop in the special Digital Copy disk , and on a Mac , a windowpane automatically pops open telling you to launch iTunes . In iTunes , you are address to a page where — get this — you enter a codification printed on slip inside the DVD shell .

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The “ download ” completes , and you have a copy of the show that ’s identical in file cabinet format to anything you get from iTunes , and it ’s locked to your story in the same way . Only you replicate it over from a disk . This just feels wrong .

As you might have a bun in the oven , the disc and code are available just once . So why the hell was there a disc at all ? I imagine this whole affair would be simpler if Fox would just publish the slip and let you pay off it with a bonafide over - the - final download via iTunes .

The variant itself looks majuscule , about equal to the DVD , quality fresh , and far better than the downsized effectual edition that Toast 8 allow you move to your iPod if you TiVo’d it when it to begin with aired . ( In case you ’re wondering , the DVD is good too , with a Seth MacFarlane / George Lucas interview and a reel showing all of the Family Guy Star Wars references throughout the years . )

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I am a fan of this construct . videodisk sales are n’t doing so red-hot , and something like this could really percolate them up . recollect of all the TV series box sets that would be right smart more desirable if they came with an automatic iTunes version . Yes , I know there are room to do it yourself , but those way are time deplete , not to cite of legal incertitude . ( I suppose ripping a videodisc for yourself is well within the mediocre - manipulation doctrine , and that Roxio and Nero , not to mention iTunes , should be all over that , but I still occupy that the effectual squabbles will continually make it heavy for mainstream software program to embrace it . The euphony biz may be casting off DRM , but Hollywood is a much more organized , high - technical school beast . )

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Fox does n’t appear 100 % committed to this . possibly it was just the need to keep it hush - hush before theJobsnote , but the typesetter’s case bears a single little sticker saying “ Digital Copy , ” with no credit of iTunes anywhere . Nor was there a reference to this clearly valuable bonus lineament anywhere on the case itself . Evenon Amazon , there ’s no mention of the fact that you may rip it to your iTunes . That ’s why it was all the more surprising when I find the 2nd disk inside : a whole phonograph record wasted for something that they did n’t even cite on the label . That ’s strange marketing , Fox . Very strange . [ Official Site ]

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