I love movies. I also have my favourite tv shows (another blog on that sometime). I do a LOT of commuting. I LOVE my iPhone as a way to watch my films & tv shows on the go.
Since totally above board legal downloading of content is virtually impossible in Ireland, I rip DVDs into AVI format and store them. I then make mp4 copies of these when I need them and delete these mp4s afterward.
This is SUCH a pain.
If there are legal reasons for no movies/tv shows on the Irish iTunes store/any other store then fine. Can’t be done ATM ( wish Apple and the EU would get something sorted soon).
My question is why a digital copy is not included on all DVDs? I know it is on some – but very few.
And why doesn’t Apple/Pixar/Disney have them at the very least. They championed this at WWDC 08. I expected my copy of WALL.E to have one, but no.
Until they clean up their act on this the illegal services will get more and more popular – and less revenue will come in for the movie distributors.
Doesn’t make sense in a recession does it?
