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1 year ago
#movies #drm #rant
In my infinite wisdom I had purchased an iPad to VGA adapter along with my iPad which I had yet to use, so I fished it out of its packaging and plugged my iPad into my TV.
“Cannot Play Movie,” my iPad reads. “The connected display is not authorized to play protected movies.”
The people that are willing to pay for movies (and, in fact, music as well) get stripped of any possibility to enjoy a purchase without resetting passwords, authorizing computers, having the ability to make backups, needing to be connected to some via-the-internet monitoring software or only being allowed to watch a movie in your regional area. Copy protection obviously cripples only the legal purchases and is nothing more than 2 lines of code for a hacker to get around. So dear movie industry, draw some parallels between yourself and the music industry. Maybe you’ll see something.
