Comments on: Walmart Launches Video Downloads http://www.sarahintampa.com/sarah/2006/11/28/walmart-launche.html Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:57:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sarah http://www.sarahintampa.com/sarah/2006/11/28/walmart-launche.html/comment-page-1#comment-2047 Sarah Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:37:49 +0000 http://www.sarahintampa.com/sarah/2006/11/28/walmart-launches-video-downloads.html#comment-2047 Good point...it *should* be legal. However, as a convenience fee, a few dollars to get a digital download to save me the hour to rip and encode is a worthwhile expense to me, and certainly to the non-geeks out there. Good point…it *should* be legal.

However, as a convenience fee, a few dollars to get a digital download to save me the hour to rip and encode is a worthwhile expense to me, and certainly to the non-geeks out there.

]]> By: nate http://www.sarahintampa.com/sarah/2006/11/28/walmart-launche.html/comment-page-1#comment-2046 nate Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:24:00 +0000 http://www.sarahintampa.com/sarah/2006/11/28/walmart-launches-video-downloads.html#comment-2046 I still hate this whole "you've just paid for a movie, but you have to pay to watch it on some other gadget that you have already paid hundreds of pounds for" culture. Don't do it. It's perfectly within your legal right to shove it into your desktop/laptop and use software to rip the dvd to avi/mpeg/wmv/aac or whatever so that you can watch it on your iPod/Archos/Mobile phone/iPaq or whatever. Sure, it'll take an hour to rip and encode, but hell, if you have an 80gb iPod video then consider how much you'll be saving by ripping your existing DVD's compared to re-downloading them at $3.97 a piece. I still hate this whole “you’ve just paid for a movie, but you have to pay to watch it on some other gadget that you have already paid hundreds of pounds for” culture.

Don’t do it.
It’s perfectly within your legal right to shove it into your desktop/laptop and use software to rip the dvd to avi/mpeg/wmv/aac or whatever so that you can watch it on your iPod/Archos/Mobile phone/iPaq or whatever.
Sure, it’ll take an hour to rip and encode, but hell, if you have an 80gb iPod video then consider how much you’ll be saving by ripping your existing DVD’s compared to re-downloading them at $3.97 a piece.

]]> By: Imperfect Christian (Formerly Gypsy Girl) http://www.sarahintampa.com/sarah/2006/11/28/walmart-launche.html/comment-page-1#comment-2045 Imperfect Christian (Formerly Gypsy Girl) Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:19:54 +0000 http://www.sarahintampa.com/sarah/2006/11/28/walmart-launches-video-downloads.html#comment-2045 Hey girl! I was going through some old archives and re-discovered the link to your blog! How are you?!?! Hey girl! I was going through some old archives and re-discovered the link to your blog! How are you?!?!

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