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Furious about improper HDCP implementation

lol. this had *got* to be the strangest thread I have ever seen on here ... and I have been here a while. Lol.
 
BiggAW said:
Then Apple should have stood up and called them on their BS.
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You might now be able to make an educated guess why Macs don't have Bluray drives. You might be able to decode Bluray without a license, but a company with $100bn in the bank and an address in the USA, can't.
 
chrono1081 said:
I have no doubt that they tried, but Apple can't always win.If they want to host movies and TV shows they have to play by the content providers rules.

If I were a content provider and was approached to sell my content digitally with no way of protecting it from piracy I'd tell Apple no too.
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It protects them from having legitimate customers pay legitimately for the content, not from pirates. The pirates ripped Blu-Rays and posted them on UseNet anyone at the movie industry got out of bed to go to work in the morning. By lunch they hit TPB.

Apple could have at least put up a big stink about the movie industry not letting them rent HD...
 
BiggAW said:
Apple could have at least put up a big stink about the movie industry not letting them rent HD...
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Who's to say they didn't though? Apple hates DRM, it was evident in Steve Job's open letter to the music industries where he wrote that it doesn't work. (And he's right, it doesn't work).

Unfortunately though Apple has to give in to the content holders if they want to sell the content.
 
paulrbeers said:
Really? How many people really care if their content has HDCP encryption or not? Most people aren't even watching movies on their VGA monitors anymore. Most people watch via their idevices or their AppleTV's...
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I have had many issues with the HDCP encryption on my Apple TV, which is very frustrating. Just last night, I rented a movie on my iPad that wouldn't play through AirPlay because of the HDCP issues. I had to fiddle around, doing things link unplugging the Apple TV, resetting, etc. It finally worked after a lot of trouble - so much for things just working (which is essential when you are sitting down to relax with a movie).

Don't get me wrong, I still love my Apple TV and AirPlay, etc., but there is huge room for improvement - and a lot has to do with HDCP crap that unfortunately Apple is forced to implement.
 
chrono1081 said:
Who's to say they didn't though? Apple hates DRM, it was evident in Steve Job's open letter to the music industries where he wrote that it doesn't work. (And he's right, it doesn't work).

Unfortunately though Apple has to give in to the content holders if they want to sell the content.
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Not that we ever heard about.
 
chrono1081 said:
Of course you wont hear about that. Companies don't post the details of their deals and contracts. What we see leaked is probably not even 1% of what goes on behind the scenes.
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But then it wouldn't have been effective. They should have made it a public battle (among the tech and business communities).
 
i laugh at was companies encryp things trying to protect stuff when in know time at all its cracked they just need to give up on encrypting movies as people will always get around it. i personaly think anything made for public consuption other than books as its copyright only goes to publisher and the writer should not be allowed to have copyright as u cant find who actually holds it then as there is to many hands in the pot but thats my opinion
 
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