EXOS is in Caddo Mills, which is literally down the road from Heath where Carmack lives. It's running without his participation but it's claiming the successes of Armadillo on its web site. They are in old Armadillo facilities.

I think no matter what, there's a lot of Carmack's influence left there. I wouldn't be surprised if he kicks in some funding.

Well, they sure as hell shouldn't be for government-enforced monopolies and escape from market forces considering they're supposed to favor letting the markets work things out.

John Carmack is "only" a multi-millionaire but there is Armadillo Aerospace. Carmack always could do more with fewer resources.

I thought Libertarians wanted few, small, sensible regulations. I thought they were for small government, small businesses, market pressures, and local control. Unfortunately Rand Paul thinks that these government-enabled monopolies remaining government-enabled monopolies is a good thing. That means that either the Libertarian platform is completely different from how it's been pitched to me or he's a full of shit big-business statist.

There are lots of sources for non-DRM music. Not so much for movies, unless you fancy VHS. There's been a mix in the thread of people talking about music and people talking about movies, sometimes in the same posts.

There are other DRM-based movie stores that aren't Apple. There are also other DRM-based stores for music. There are also non-DRM-based stores for music. IIRC, some iTunes stuff is even non-DRM.

There's no one single answer, but there are lots of options. Unfortunately none of those options are perfect for movies.

Where did I say "there's a DRM-free movie store"?

Let me quote to you what you quoted of mine:

There are other stores that sell music and movies legally. If you bought from Apple or anyone else something that's controlled by DRM your goods are subject to that DRM. If you bought someone else's DRM-encumbered stuff, it's not at all impacted by this. If you bought non-DRM stuff, it's not impacted by this. If you upgrade to a halfway recent OS, you're not impacted by this.

Some eBooks from Googe Play Books are DRM free. Some from Nook are. Better World Books will scan and recycle a paper book and send you the PDF.

"Or from which store should one have lawfully purchased movies instead?"
  ^^^^^ That part of the fucking question right there. ^^^^^

There are other stores that sell music and movies legally. If you bought from Apple or anyone else something that's controlled by DRM your goods are subject to that DRM. If you bought someone else's DRM-encumbered stuff, it's not at all impacted by this. If you bought non-DRM stuff, it's not impacted by this. If you upgrade to a halfway recent OS, you're not impacted by this.

If you have the money to throw at a huge library of DRM-encumbered stuff, spend $80 on Windows 7 for goodness sake.

You can buy music places that let you listen to it without DRM. EMusic. Bandcamp. Megatunes. Oddly enough, FYE if you don't mind physical media.

Ummmm... Emusic isn't a player. It's a place other than iTunes to buy music. It comes as MP3 when you buy it.

This isn't iTunes, ya cranky whiner.

I buy my movies and music from Google or every once in a while on physical media. It's pretty hard for Apple to screw those up.

I thought it was damn near a prerequisite these days.

Calling a 350-pound gyro a helicopter is kind of like calling a go-cart a sports car.

The Association for the Advancement of Assonance in the Americas would like a word.