HDCP and Apple
This sounds like complete crap to me. AppleInsider and Ars Technica report that Apple has adopted a new hardward standard that will limit the playback of “Freeplay”-enabled media on non-compliant devices — even if no laws are being broken. Based on the report, it seems that this is going to be a reality across Apple’s whole line of computers, as the current batch of HDCP-enabled MacBooks attest.
Once again, the conglomerates are missing the point. Folks, we are not the criminals, and I’m tired of buying hardware that comes to me broken.
Case in point: I hate my iPod Shuffle. It seems like every time I decide to plug it into my MacBook Pro — the only computer I have ever used with my Shuffle — it tells me that iPod can only used with one iTunes library. The only options I have are “Cancel” or erase the iPod. Huh? Now this wouldn’t be such a big deal if it didn’t take so bloody long to put music back on the thing. And, sheesh, it’s only a gigabyte! How much music could I possibly steal?!
I’ve said it before: I liked Apple better when they were not so successful.
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