Turns out NoteBurner's claims of "lossless" DRM-removal aren't entirely accurate, but are likely good enough for most of us. Noted video expert Jim Tanous at TekRevue helped me vet this piece, and also did some quality comparisons. For a one-time purchase price of US$45 NoteBurner strips the DRM from Apple's iTunes movies resulting in portable, DRM-free versions of your purchased movies to use as you wish. If only there were an easy way to strip the DRM from Apple's iTunes purchases like there is using Handbrake and MakeMKV for DVDs and Blu-Rays. But it is easy, and easy is always going to win out.
It would be even easier to simply skip the purchasing and head straight to the downloading. And that's not cool.
The problem with this is it starts down a slippery slope. This would work and is relatively easy, especially once you add in the auto-torrent searcher Couch Potato. One option would be to purchase the DVD from Amazon and then use BitTorrent to download a temporary copy of the movie to watch while waiting for the DVD to arrive. As such, I've been searching for a plan to stay legal (at least in terms of purchasing the movies) without having to live inside of a DRM'ed bubble.
The resulting files are high-quality movies that can be played anywhere today and, with reasonable expectation, in the future, as well.īut if it's Saturday at 7:00 PM and you want to watch a movie that night, buying (and ripping) a DVD or Blu-Ray isn't going to suffice because it won't arrive in time. I put a lot of work into building and curating my movie collection I'm not interested in repeating that work time-and-again just to keep some suits and lawyers happy today.įor these reasons I'm a big fan of using Handbrake, MakeMKV and Don Melton's scripts to convert DVDs and Blu-Rays into DRM-free digital formats. Plus, I've been around the block enough times to know that even if my DRM-limited content works on all my current devices, it's a near-certainty that it won't work on at least some of my devices five years from now.
That clearly doesn't work if I want to stream the movie I just purchased to my TiVo in the playroom.Įvery other online movie purchase source has similar restrictions – the large content creators demand them. If I buy a movie from Apple's iTunes Movie Store the file contains DRM that keeps me from playing that movie on anything but Apple devices. This is where Digital Rights Management (DRM) or, put more plainly, copy-protection, becomes a huge nuisance. I need my media portable not just portable in the mobile sense to take with me when I travel, but portable in the sense that I can't have limits on which of my devices will play any given movie. Some of those devices are made by Apple, like my iPad and Apple TV, while some are made by TiVo, Roku, Panasonic, Sony and others. I like to watch a lot of movies on a lot of different devices.
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