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blog.wired.com - 11/20/2008

Apple Bends to Studios, Adds Copyright Protection to MacBooks

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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 ...

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appleinsider.com - 11/19/2008

Apple's new MacBooks have built-in copy protection measures

— appleinsider.com — Apple's new MacBook lines include a form of digital copy protection that will prevent protected media, such... as DRM-infused iTunes movies, from playing back on devices that aren't complaint with the new priority protection measures. (more) Apple's new MacBooks have built-in copy protection measures

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Silicon Alley Insider — ... According to Wired, Apple has quietly added anti-piracy technology to its new MacBook laptops. If you hook your laptop up to your digital TV, projector, external monitor, etc. -- which we do on a near-daily basis -- to watch movies, it will block you from playing movies you've paid for from iTunes unless you have a "High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection" compatible display. ...