Ah, technology.....

[patgund]

Season one of "Babylon 5", both full set and individual episodes, are now available for download on the iTunes Music Store.

Almost makes me wish I had a video iPod......

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[ismarc.livejournal.com]

What kind of DRM do they use on iTunes video? Even if I had an Video iPod I wouldn't touch it if it's all DRMed up.

This is one of the things that unsettles me about the new Apple Mac architecture, TCM, even though I don't yet fully understand all that I know about it. Do Mac Minis have the TCM chipsets?

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Anything from the ITMS has DRM built in (it's a protected version of ACC, only Apple uses it). And it's there mostly because Apple didn't have a choice - the music companies will not licence music without it. The restrictions Apple places on it are a lot less nasty than some other companies, (like Napster's monthly "rental" of music"). For example, you can burn the files as a music CD as often as you want - or even burn to CD and rerip as MP3 or non-protected ACC.

And, of course, anything you place on it yourself, be it video, pictures, MP3, or ACC, has no DRM on it at all.

As for the Intel MacMini, the closest to TCM chipware is a bios-level chipset to allow installation of Mac OS X on this Intel machine. But that chipware doesn't go near iTunes or anything else, all it does is tell the installer "Yeah, this is an Apple machine, go ahead and install OS X" It's not TCM in the media-control sense though.