I was about to come in here and preach about how shitty DRM'd iTunes releases of skate videos are, but clearly its doing it's job. The time it takes to cap and upload one of these from a locked down iTunes file probably made them like $50 in this thread alone.
Sucks, because when you used to buy a DVD that shit was yours forever to play wherever and whenever. Now we get some Masterlock of a file that only opens with iTunes on 3 different computers before it locks you out.
If they just sold the straight .mp4s I could play this masterpiece on my phone, on VLC, on whatever the hell I wanted, and Transworld would get _all_ of the money instead of giving up an unholy cut to Apple. It would be the best possible situation for us and the companies, even better than DVD's/VHS's.
BUT that shit would get uploaded to every single file hosting service on the web within 7 minutes and Transworld and all those filmakers would make like $46 dollars total.
Not sure why I'm posting this to be honest. Maybe someone will realize how much this blatant piracy holds the medium back and will at least keep that shit to themselves? Seems like every other industry is on the verge of bending DRM right over for good but here we are like the iPod video just came out.
Am I the only one who cares about this?