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Re: ITunes TV files

Well, I can confirm the same thing. I just purchased one of the Pixar shorts and it does the same thing. Would be interesting to see if a C++ call to OpenMovieFile does the same thing.

I suspect Apple go to some lengths to ensure you can't open these files. I guess that while they were able to let you open and play DRM-protected audio files while preventing you from saving them they weren't able to do the same for video files and so the only way to protect them was by preventing you from opening them.

It's understandable, whether or not you agree with the general principle. Apple aren't going to be able to persuade the owners of material to make it available for legal download if they can't guarantee people won't be able to trivially copy the files to their friends. Oh well.

-Rolf

At 7:04 am -0400 13/10/05, Elliotte Harold wrote:

I hadn't seen the first couple of episodes of Lost yet, so after Steve's announcement yesterday, I updated to QuickTime 7.0.3 and bought the season premiere episode from iTunes. It seems to be some sort of .m4v file. I can play this in iTunes and I can play this in QuickTime Player. However, when I try to open it in my own Amateur (based on QuickTime for Java) I get a "notAllowedToSaveMovieErr". Stack trace is:
...
I'm not trying to save the movie, just open it; and on the same computer where I bought the show. This should work.

Any ideas? What does QuickTime Player have that I don't, and how do I get it? Is this one of those annoying areas where DRM restricts me from doing something completely reasonable with content I've purchased and that, according to Steve, I now "own"? If so, has anyone cracked this yet?

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  email@hidden




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Rolf Howarth
Square Box Systems Ltd
Stratford-upon-Avon UK.
http://www.squarebox.co.uk
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