Actually, the MacMini shipped with aDVI port rather than DisplayPort. Unless, you modified your MacMini to have a DisplayPort instead.
I owned a MacMini also, so I know that its a DVI port rather than DisplayPort
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Apple Incorporates HDCP (Copy Protection) in New Laptops
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Actually, the MacMini shipped with aDVI port rather than DisplayPort. Unless, you modified your MacMini to have a DisplayPort instead.
I owned a MacMini also, so I know that its a DVI port rather than DisplayPort
No the reason people download illegal mvoies, cd, and software is because they don't want to pay for it.
But the iTunes store proved that if you price the content cheaply enough, they will want to pay for it. It's legal, and the downloads are faster and safer than using other methods.
But add too many restrictions, and they'll go right back to downloading it illegally.
People download illegal products for a multitude of reasons - trying to weed it down to a single reason is silly. The fact that they're free is certainly a big part of it, but you'd be remiss in claiming that the increasingly stronger chokehold that content producers are exercising on their customers through DRM has nothing to do with it. For me, at least, the scenario of buying content to support the studio (if its something I'm buying I'm going to want them to make more of it, after all) and then downloading or somehow producing a copy of it with the DRM stripped is much more likely than simply living with the DRM.
Oh, and I could easily get all the music I want for free off of <name-your-sharing-method-here>, but the $.99 songs off the iTunes store are priced low enough where I'd rather buy my music and support the artists than just download it for free. Your claim kind of falls apart there - given good products at reasonable prices that don't ridiculously restrict your usage of the product after you've already bought it, people WILL pay for media.
Exactly.
Apple is pretty much forced into this because of greedy movie studios and such. If they won't release their movies in a form that doesn't require HDCP (and other forms of DRM for that matter), then what is Apple supposed to do? Not sell their movies and lose customers to other services?
I'm voting this negative but not because I'm blaming Apple, but because I'm blaming the studios that put DRM on the content.
Well, if that's what it did here, I wouldn't have so much of an issue with it. But here it seems that it's denying output altogether. Not good.
As to the impact, I have a MacMini hooked up to a projector as my TV at home. If I ever felt the desire to upgrade to a newer computer now, I'd face the possibility of the system not working properly. So, yes, I see this as being a BIG issue.
Yea.. that is exactly what he is saying.. If I will not be able to do whatever I want with the content I payed for, I will no longer pay for it, period.
Anyways.. Welcome to the world of DRM.. This is way soooo sad..
AppleTV has always had hdcp protection so these same movies would fail to play on your appletv.
The story here isn't that Apple's implementation of display port on the new mac laptops and hdmi on the AppleTV honor hdcp, since Apple has little choice over the matter, but rather that Apple is allowing media companies to use the HDCP flag on content in Apple's store. To make matters worse Apple is not warning customers that content purchased from their store is crippled in this way.
silly
The stupid part about this whole thing to me is, what is stopping people who rip content from building a hardware system with HDCP incorporated into the device? Seems like anyone could rip the components out of a computer or a monitor, or get cheap knock off chips from China. With the components available one could easily have a ripping machine.
There is no way to stop totally stop copy protection as long as the content is actually able to be viewed or listened to.
The stupid part about this whole thing to me is, what is stopping people who rip content from building a hardware system with HDCP incorporated into the device? Seems like anyone could rip the components out of a computer or a monitor, or get cheap knock off chips from China. With the components available one could easily have a ripping machine.
There is no way to stop totally stop copy protection as long as the content is actually able to be viewed or listened to.
Or don't want to pay to not be allowed to do what they want with it.
If I break this encryption that allows HDCP to work, I will be able to play content I legally downloaded. The problem is that I'm breaking the DMCA law. That is one law I will break without a second thought.
I am willing to be that 25-40% of people who download content illegally do so because they want more freedom than DRM allows. (Note, I have no hard facts. An inkling, if you will.)
Right and mot of the songs on itunes already come with restrictions but yet more and more people keep buying.
The industry answer is "closing the analog hole". For example, plugging your DVD player into a VHS recorder and taping the movie would fail because the DVD player would sense that it wasn't plugged into an HDCP display and refuse to play.
Of course, that is not only a restriction of fair use, but screws over anyone with actual displays that happen to be from before HDCP was implemented (I'm pretty sure there's still TVs sold without it). A friend of mine had to buy a crappy old DVD player because his Xbox 360 refused to play movies on his 60" rear-projection TV.
I'm already in the habit of ripping/copying the few DVDs I own before I ever watch them, thanks to the unskippable trailers and other "features" studios have added to the discs over the years. HDCP is just their latest salvo in ensuring that people who pirate movies will always be way better off than people who try to pay them money.
It's very much like how pirated Windows (which typically remove things like Activation, and the continuous Genuine Advantage background checks) is so much easier to deal with than the retail versions. I recently bought a new motherboard and processor for my PC desktop and was forced to call Microsoft and beg them for a new activation code because my fully-paid-for Windows wasn't happy. I wish I had just downloaded it.
It's a really smooth business move, as you can tell.
This guarantees I will not be bothering to buy iTunes movies, & will continue to download them as good old fashioned, non-DRM files instead.
I understand that, but the older macs that do not have mini displayport do not support HDCP.....and yet can play the drm'ed movies from iTunes.
Wow - let me get this right. Apple is currently NOT shipping a monitor that can play content from their own laptop. SHOCKING and sad.
Maybe you should take your own advice. As of right now the 24" LED is NOT shipping.
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These movies will not play on any display that does not support HDCP (most). So no watching on your TV or your apple monitor either.
To each their own for a sense of humor. As for Hellboy 2, it did not live up what I had hoped for. Guillermo del Toro didn't do nearly as well with this film, but I still enjoyed it. Anyway, we are getting off topic.
My comment is not about saying you are wrong with your concern, but I would say to two things.
1. Apple probably didn't have a choice.
2. Apple really wants people like you to purchase the Apple TV.