MacBooks are tainted by HDCP -- hurts those who actually bought their content.

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High Definition Content Protection—the annoying, and somewhat.. retarded thing that's supposed to stop people from copying hi-def stuff as it travels over a card-display connector— has apparently, and unfortunately, come to Apple's MacBooks. HDCP is now included on new MacBooks to protect iTunes Store media, though it seems that only some of the content is actually HDCP-aware. A high school teacher was unable to play Hellboy 2 on his classroom's projector with his new aluminum MacBook, but other purchased media (such as Stargate: Continuum and Heroes episodes) worked just fine. Perfect. Because copyright protection is all about inconveniencing those who actually bought their stuff legally?

According to "the_sidewinder":

"That's all DRM has ever been able to do. Anyone who wants to get around DRM can and will. Those that DRM is meant to stop, aren't even affected by it, as the source that they are using doesn't have any.

DRM only hurts the honest non tech savvy people."

Which I can honestly agree with. DRM'ing software, fine. DRM'ing music, fine. DRM'ing *hardware*? That's a little too far for my taste.

The new MacBook Pros better not have said HDCP, because I want one.

#515071

Not a big fan of DRM of any kind, but I am a fan of intellectual rights, though.

How Microsoft of them...

#515406

heh, you said taint...

#515410

One more reason to boycott DRM music, movies and multimedia content entirely. DRM isn't Apple's fault. It is the fault of money greedy media content publishers and companies, not artists. Apple is only responding to commercial record companies and movie production companies who own the copyrights to the media, not the artist.

Support "open source media". Open source media is media that is released and published by the artists themselves, on their own website for example, for anyone to download and watch or listen at whim, completely free. Open source media puts artists more in control of their own media, what they release, when and how, not money greedy giant multi-national record and movie companies, contracts or licensing deals. You will be surprised at the vast amount of open source media that is out there and the quality also.

Remember, no one twists your arm to listen to a traditional commercial audio CD or watch a traditional commercial movie. You choose to. That teacher who bought the movie with DRM and hoped to broadcast that movie to an audience may not have had the copyright to do so. He wouldn't have run into that problem with open source media which is inclusive, not exclusive.

#516121

He also would have been showing indie films and not hellboy 2

#516185

Can't people go down to their nearest "Redbox" on their free time and rent "Hellboy 2" for a dollar? What is wrong with independent films? Your response seems as if the concept "independent film" is dirty or something to be ashamed of. Why defend the very machine that steps on your hand when you move it out of line? The giant multi-national corporations that manufacture creativity get very upset and angry when people don't show appreciation by paying per view. Art should be free. Creativity should be free.

I think from a classroom perspective, an indie film would be much better since it is exposing impressionable minds to media and culture that they ordinarily would not be exposed to. That is a good thing. Remember though, not all indie films are open source, or free to the public to view. Choose freedom.

#516372

Indie films are awesome, but a school class doesn't want something deep, or rewarding - indie films aren't good at not doing that, they lack the budget for special effects and fight scenes.

#516679

Remember, no one twists your arm to listen to a traditional commercial audio CD or watch a traditional commercial movie. You choose to. That teacher who bought the movie with DRM and hoped to broadcast that movie to an audience may not have had the copyright to do so. He wouldn't have run into that problem with open source media which is inclusive, not exclusive.

it will be funny if new audio cds will have something like the sega cds.. stating the drm.. and the disk is drm protected and can only be played with drm enabled cd players.. if not the cd will explode and breaks into pieces..

#516802

it will be funny if new audio cds will have something like the sega cds.. stating the drm.. and the disk is drm protected and can only be played with drm enabled cd players.. if not the cd will explode and breaks into pieces..

Sony already tried this with dismal results. They lost a court battle to be able to include their self-installing DRM software on their audio CDs. Countless numbers of people were hurt when they unwittingly put a Sony audio CD, or any one of their record lable CDs with the self-installing software on them into their computers. The software collected all kinds of personal information from your computer and sent this info back to the Borg collective, just by inserting an audio CD into a computer, not even listening to it. This was a disaster, not only for the issue of privacy, but because the self-installing software was buggy and really messed up some people's computers. Greedy multi-national corporations want to enslave the masses so they can make more money all under the guise of "people will laugh at you if you don't fit in with the popular kids". That is the price people pay when they drink up the corporate kool-aid, thinking that they can only survive and only be entertained if they are viewing or listening to commercial, pay per use content. That is fine if you want to do that. Enjoy corporate control.

#516842