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constantr

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Jan 25, 2009
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hi,

I see i can down movies (and pay obv) from itunes, and since i cant download the movie i wanna see to my iphone while playing a pokertourney, i might want to buy it

can i lets say download max payne from itunes and put it on my iphone?


Probably its a yes,

but dont wanna spend 15$ for no reason

Thanks
 
I do this quite a bit actually. I've even converted about half of my large DVD library to MP4 so that I can import them into iTunes and then load on the iPhone. Pretty handy.
 
I rent movies from the red box machine for a buck and convert it into my iPhone. Cheapest way to go.
 
I rent movies from the red box machine for a buck and convert it into my iPhone. Cheapest way to go.

Well seeing as you have no moral issue with stealing movies, the cheapest way is actually to just download them straight from the internet.
 
Well seeing as you have no moral issue with stealing movies, the cheapest way is actually to just download them straight from the internet.

Paying something is better than nothing, no?

Also when renting your paying for the right to watch the video, who says you can't watch it on your phone? Technically you could stream it to your phone from your dvd drive on your computer, same end result.
 
how am I stealing? I'm paying to watch the movie.

Well, when you return the rented movie, if you also delete the file that you have made for your iPhone at the same time, you have stolen nothing. If that is what you meant then I apologise. But I assumed that after converting the movie you meant you would keep it.
 
Well seeing as you have no moral issue with stealing movies, the cheapest way is actually to just download them straight from the internet.

youre ****ing joking right? Oh no!!!! if enough people do this the studio execs wont be able to afford their 30 million dollar G4 jets anymore!!! oh the humanity!!! they'll have to buy a 15 million dollar citation xls instead!!! OH THE HUMANITY.
 
youre ****ing joking right? Oh no!!!! if enough people do this the studio execs wont be able to afford their 30 million dollar G4 jets anymore!!! oh the humanity!!! they'll have to buy a 15 million dollar citation xls instead!!! OH THE HUMANITY.

Please tell me where I said This was such a terrible thing. I was just correcting someone who said that the cheapest way to get movies was renting and converting them for $1.
 
youre ****ing joking right? Oh no!!!! if enough people do this the studio execs wont be able to afford their 30 million dollar G4 jets anymore!!! oh the humanity!!! they'll have to buy a 15 million dollar citation xls instead!!! OH THE HUMANITY.
Same rationalization almost all criminals use not to mention class warfare dribble.
 
I rent movies from the red box machine for a buck and convert it into my iPhone. Cheapest way to go.

how am I stealing? I'm paying to watch the movie.

What you are doing is against the law. I'm not arguing the ethics of it with you, I'm telling you straight up: It is illegal.

It doesn't matter that you paid to rent the movie or that you don't plan on distributing the ripped file or exhibiting it for a fee. When you rip the movie from DVD on to your hard drive you have broken the terms of use agreement you entered into when you rented the movie as put forth by the copyright owner. Not to mention that your software which defeats the CSS encryption is also illegal.

Again, I'm not arguing the moral issue with you. If you're gonna do it, that is just fine with me. But, don't pretend like you aren't doing anything wrong.

Here, about some further reading: Let me google the DMCA for you.
 
What you are doing is against the law. I'm not arguing the ethics of it with you, I'm telling you straight up: It is illegal.

It doesn't matter that you paid to rent the movie or that you don't plan on distributing the ripped file or exhibiting it for a fee. When you rip the movie from DVD on to your hard drive you have broken the terms of use agreement you entered into when you rented the movie as put forth by the copyright owner. Not to mention that your software which defeats the CSS encryption is also illegal.

Again, I'm not arguing the moral issue with you. If you're gonna do it, that is just fine with me. But, don't pretend like you aren't doing anything wrong.

Here, about some further reading: Let me google the DMCA for you.

Here is the bottom line for me, I'm not costing the movie industry an revenue, because I paid for the rental. If I ripped it to my iPhone or streamed it to my iPhone over the 3g network it's the same thing.
 
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