F*CK iTunes

[Mucky]

In case of hard drive crashes (which _sometimes_ if at all happen on Macs but quite often happen on Windows machines)

You clearly know nothing about hard drives.

[Krazy]

PSN video store is like this too. When my PS3 died, it took my copies of Troll 2 and Inglorious Basterds with it, because I hadn't backed them up.

But when I got a new PS3, I still buy stuff off the video store sometimes... I just back it up on a portable hard drive.

Everything should be backed up on a hard drive anyway. The main issue is just getting it back onto your PC/whatever when you want to watch it, since it requires a lot of copying at that point. And yeah, it would be a lot better to just have infinite downloads, like games from the PSN store.

Still, there's no reason to bite the head off anything in particular. Anything other than rental places is going to have a similar policy. It's kind of across the board for digital purchases of video content. Get a hard drive to back stuff up, or just expand your current hard drive, or whatever. Problems have solutions; it's still a problem, but if you want to access a content certain way, the asinine policies of a company shouldn't inherently stop you.

[Legion]

this is supposed to be a bad thing?

anyway, what i know is my macbook works _all the time_ where my windows machines always have problems

[UntamedLoli]

PEBKAC.

[Mr.]

I buy dvds and cds. Never have any problems with losing movies or music in hard drive crashes. Weird.

[Thalraxal]

Out of curiousity, is it possible to upload music to an iPod without using iTunes? Or are those things linked together like a ball and chain?