Q: What can I do to protect my purchased programmes?
Ok, so we can buy large "box sets" of programmes, which are too big to store on my computer. So I leave them in on the Apple Store servers. And Apple make them unavailable, so having paid for the programme we no longer have it.
Leaving aside that this is the sort of behaviour that will prolong the life of DVDs and BluRay, and is certainly making me realise that buying movies and tv from Apple is dumb of me (because I am basically paying a lot of money to rent it, and do not actually have the guaranteed opportunity to watch it when I want to), and making my Netflix subscription seem a better idea.... what can i practically do to protect myself and make a copy of the programmes?
Itunes seems incredibly inflexible about saying "Store tv and movies on this external hard drive I have" and my laptop Hard Disk is just not big enough for me to download all of my programmes into Itunes and then back that up on a 1T HD or similar.
Suggestions please.
And if you are reading this Apple, this is dumb of you. The trick to killing off DVDs and netflix is to make it easy for us to buy stuff and watch it WHENEVER WE WANT, not just until you decide no to.
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Posted on Apr 26, 2014 7:23 AM