Ivan N. Zlatev BloG

Take this Apple fanboys (or how sad this world is)

I stumbled upon an exciting news from the Apple camp today. Apple has added a new copyright protection mechanism to iTunes which blocks you (Apple users) from watching your movies (copyright protected) on your own TV (or any other external display). Enjoy!

Apple iTunes External Display Copyright Protection

Source: Wired Blog Post

Friday, November 21st, 2008 at 11:20

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Chris Howie 1 month ago 1 point
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Supposedly Vista will does this crap too. They're only going to push people towards torrents and the like.

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Alan 1 month ago 1 point
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Yay! Now i don't have to watch the content that I bought with my hard earned cash :D What a time saver!

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asdf 1 month ago 1 point
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And if you want to have legal support for Blu-Ray etc. in Linux you'll have to implement the same feature! Yay!

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jwilson 1 month ago 1 point
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I thought I had read somewhere that this would only affect older televisions that didn't implement HDCP and I also read that this only occurs on the appletv (HD Content from iTunes) as well as the new macbook pros (late 2008)

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Stephen Gentle 1 month ago 1 point
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When will the movie studios get it - copy protection and stuff like this only ever disadvantages the people who buy their content legally... Surely they should be trying to offer a better experience than torrented movies, but they're not.

At least pretty much all monitors and projectors sold now are HDCP compliant...

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Alan 1 month ago 1 point
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"At least pretty much all monitors and projectors sold now are HDCP compliant..."

So what? I bought a nice TV 3 years ago, why should I have to fork out another few hundred/thousand euro to buy another TV to replace my perfectly good TV just so I can watch my legally purchased content? There are plenty of HD TVs out there without HDMI support.

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Winfried Maus 1 month ago 1 point
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What "asdf" said. Those copy protection features must be installed to comply with the specification and to make it "legal" (which is a term the courts of every country on this planet have to determine respectively).

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Lynda 1 month ago 1 point
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This is really really sad...
It's really odd too. Nothing is preventing you from watching a DVD on your DVD player on your living room, and then watch it on the DVD player on your bedroom... Two diferent players and two diferent TVs.
Why have iTunes do it... Horrible. I'm so glad I didn't buy a MacBook Pro. I don't want to support a company like Apple. Digusting!

This is ridiculous....

Debian is doing just fine on my Dell 820. No need to change that. *cheers*

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jpobst 1 month ago 1 point
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It's hard to blame Apple or Microsoft for this. They want their users to be able to watch HD content. In order to do that, they have to follow the rules. I think their users prefer these restrictions that they will probably never experience to not having the content at all.

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Ivan N. Zlatev 1 month ago 1 point
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Still, they are probably the only ones who can stand up and oppose this insanity and they didn't.

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Efdee 1 month ago 1 point
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How about: Don't copy-protect your homemade movies ?

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Alan 1 month ago 1 point
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Copy protection is mandatory on blu-ray discs, even for homemade movies. Or at least that was true the last time I read up on it.

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Take this Apple fanboys (or how sad this world is)

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