Purchasing iTunes TV shows

Apple itunes customers beware. READ THE FINE PRINT! I spent a considerable sum of money “purchasing” many episodes of a favorite TV program from itunes. Customers need to know they are not buying files that can be played anywhere but in itunes and that access to the “purchases” is limited, you will never really own them and at some stage you will lose them altogether, Apple registers each program to the computer you are using and each time you change computers or play the program on a different computer, you lose a “life”, from memory i think you get five lives and then that is it.

Furthermore, backing up the files to DVD gets you nowhere, they are unplayable anywhere but in itunes, forget about watching them on your TV. Attempting to reinstall the backed up files to a new computer results in losing another life and guess what! they didn’t work anyway and are now totally unavailable. Take my advice, get your media elsewhere, the cost of this expensive lesson was comparable to the cost of buying the programs on DVD, which can be played anywhere and remains your property, not that of itunes.

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