Apple iTunes and HDCP problems on new MacBook’s

In this current age we just can’t live without High Definition Content Protection (HDCP), try buying a HD capable device without it, you can’t. HDCP is used in so many devices these days, from Blu-ray players to HDTV’s, as well as the new Apple aluminum MacBook. Apple use iTunes Store to encrypt DRMed content from A to B.

Ars Technica have said in an article that one of their friends’s tried to play Hellboy 2 in a classroom, using a projector with his new aluminum MacBook. He did not get very far, as he was denied access and an error popped up.

Not all movies had this problem; he played other media that he purchased, such as Heroes season 2, and Stargate: Continuum. The technology that is preventing certain movies from playing is called DPCP, or DisplayPort Content Protection.

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