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Apple’s iTunes 9 looks to be bringing with it a ton of new features that will expand Apple’s software connections to beyond just its own ecosystem.

As I’ve posted before,  iTunes 9 rumored to carry Blu-ray support. Now the next big feature that’s rumored is DVD ripping support. AppleInsider is sceptical of the latest shots hosted on the Boy Genius Report which showed “Play DVD” and “Import DVD” buttons at the bottom of the program window.

While a DVD playback feature isn’t shocking at all, the notion that one could import – or rip – a movie from a DVD for playback on an iPod or iPhone would go against what the movie industry has been trying to protect for so long. Granted, movie ripping from a purchased, licensed DVD for private use would be little different in practice than ripping a CD for playback on an iPod, but defeating DVD copy protection would mean that Apple would have very special exemption from the DVD Forum.

Of course, these are all just rumors and speculation until iTunes 9 hits the web. For Mac OS users, currently, there are so many freeware/shareware can rip DVD to iTunes now，iFunia DVD to iTunes Converter for Mac, Handbrake, some of these third party software actually do a good job.