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Madness!!! Apple Bends to Studios, Adds Copyright Protection to MacBooks | Gadget Lab from Wired.com. Talk about punishing the legal and paying user: "Appearing to cave to Hollywood demands, Apple has quietly added a restrictive copyright protection mechanism to its new MacBooks that is preventing customers from watching movies on external displays. Apple has secretly included a copy protection scheme called High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) in the external display ports on the latest models of it MacBooks, released in the middle of October.."
Another customer insult, just like region coding - incredible!
Yet another ridiculous way of enforcing a DRM based technological process, which perhaps, is seen to increase profits, look like its being friends with the legal world through the macro environment and ultimately restricting the end users possibilities when using his/her own property.
Thumbs up! (sarcasm)
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Posted by: Ross London | November 20, 2008 at 09:22 AM