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Old November 20th, 2008, 12:22 AM
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Apple adds copyright protection to new MacBook Pros
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/1...adds-copy.html

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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.

Apple has not disclosed the new anti-copying mechanism, and now increasing numbers of customers are discovering that they cannot play movies bought from the iTunes online store on many external monitors, TVs or projectors.
So basically every iTMS-purchased movie will only play on the internal screen of MacBook / MacBook Pro...
Has anyone run to/tested this?
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