HDCP Support slipped into new Apple products

It certainly isn’t surprising to see that HDCP has managed to find it’s way into Apple products, although I highly doubt this is something Apple would be endorsing at this point in time. Wired has also recently covered this.

Following the shipping of the new MacBook’s the Apple forums have lit up with outrage from customers purchasing and renting content from the iTunes store, only to find they cannot play it on external monitors or projectors due to the HDCP supported DisplayPort.

It is unfair on consumers to be expected to fork out for new displays to discourage copy protection, all this measure will do is bring new workarounds to exploit and disable HDCP or simply drive what would have been legitimate purchasers of content back to P2P file sharing and ripping. 

The studios just don’t get it.