iTunes

is applied ONLY to SOME newer movies purchased via the iTunes store. ...

According to Ars Technica, only some iTunes Store downloads fail. It's not clear why. I wonder if those movies would fail to play on any other Mac, since AFAIK no other Mac supports HDCP. ...

Well.. that seems to affect the material bought from iTMS. Does DVD player of the same generation of Macs do any of the same limitations? If the legally bought movie DVDs would exhibit this same "genuine advantage" (throwing nice words to mask the crippleware part of it..) "benefit", then... well, VLC and avis sound more tempting again. How often do they change the...

You have to be kidding me. So if I buy a movie from iTunes I can not watch it on a TV screen I connect to when I am traveling? ...

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/11/apple-adds-copy.html So basically every iTMS-purchased movie will only play on the internal screen of MacBook / MacBook Pro... Has anyone run to/tested this?

There were no big problems. I just changed the location of my iTunes library in iTunes' Preferences window. You MIGHT have some problems with iTunes not being able to find your tracks, but if all your files are in your current iTunes Music folder, I don't think it should matter. ...

I need to do to make this happen on this specific piece of hardware... I have information on how to forward ports but I don't understand how that would apply to Itunes sharing at all. ...

ok, thanks for the replies. Satcomer, yes, I read the article you linked to me and I'm not sure it is exactly what I'm trying to do. Thank you though. Diablo, here's my position. I bought this iBook of ebay with 10.5 installed, no disks though. So if I were to make a "non-destructive partition" and put my itunes music on it, and at some point needed to reformat my OS drive,...

I have turned on iTunes sharing so both machines have the right ports open...? ...

One iTunes Library With Multiple Computers? ...