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You can't screen record a DVD using Apple's DVD player, they don't let you. It's possible they will do this with iTunes rentals as well. Either way, I don't get the whole point of your post. There's always ways around DRM no matter what the companies try. It's legal here in Canada to rip DVDs BTW if you own them, it's fair use. It's simple and takes 5 mins or less to start the ripping if you have done it before. And it is faster than real time. This does not really have any big impact on the DVD rental business because the 4 rental places in my town are doing just fine.

I think renting a DVD and ripping it, thus getting a movie for only a few dollars, is actually much easier than trying to record your screen. With screen recording you need a very fast hard drive to capture at 30 frames per second and it takes the entire length of the movie to record it. Out of the two options, ripping off rented DVDs or ripping off rented iTunes movies, DVDs would actually be much easier.