Fox to allow DVD ripping to Apple’s iTunes

Also in Apple’s movie rental deal yesterday with Fox: Apple will license its FairPlay copy-protection technology to Fox for DVD movie releases. This will allow DVD purchasers to easily — and legally — rip movies to their computers for playback on iPods and iPhones.

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iTunes Tax in jersey

Beginning this week, New Jersey residents purchasing music and videos from services like Apple’s iTunes and rival digital downloads e-tailers encountered something they’d previously only found at bricks-and-mortar counterparts: a sales tax.

Democratic Governor Jon Corzine proposed the sales tax expansion earlier this spring to help the state to recover from a $4.5 billion budget deficit, an ABC News affiliate in New York reported recently on its Web site. The changes, along with a sales tax rate hike from 6 to 7 percent, took effect on Oct. 1.

According to a CNET News.com special report completed in April, 15 states and the District of Columbia already included media downloads in their sales tax regimes, and a handful of others–New Jersey included–were contemplating similar moves.

Garden State officials didn’t stop at downloaded music and videos for the newly taxed set. New Jerseyans must now pay taxes on data processing; tanning, massage and tattooing services; limousines; and flooring and carpeting installation, among other things.

Source:Cnet.com

MT: Yea ok i guess it back to bit torrent again

Apple itunes 7.0.1

Apple today released an updated version of iTunes 7 to fix widespread problems that surfaced in the initial release of the software earlier this month. According to Apple’s brief release notes, iTunes 7.0.1 “addresses stability and performance issues with Cover Flow, CD importing, iPod syncing, and more.” As previously reported, a large number of iTunes users flooded Apple’s discussion boards and iLounge’s forums with complaints about the issues shortly after iTunes 7 was released at Apple’s special event on September 12th. Application bugs reported by users varied widely; it is unknown which specific issues will be fixed with this update.

Take:  well imgoing to install it now  ill let you know in the coming days how it is