Quote Originally Posted by zanefan View Post
It's just more convenient than recording them on DVD and then converting them.
Exactly. Please just completely avoid websites that can't be recorded. Our numbers aren't large, but we are somebody. All it took was Amazon to start allowing DRM free music, the herd turned, and iTunes followed soon after.

Hulu is now enforcing a new restriction. Can anyone record
http://www.hulu.com/toy-soldiers
?
The way it is going, if no one complains to legislators and content providers, and no one votes at their polling place, with their feet, and elsewhere with their wallets, we will have to download a dedicated player for every network, cable TV, and sattelite channel in existence. And we will need a dedicated player installed on every device because we will have to buy a multimedia file for the cellular phone, for the HDTV, for the portable player, and the next great device.