Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 7:33pm
When I attempted to watch the movie, however, the Apple TV displayed an error message: "This content requires HDCP for playback." HDCP (High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection) is a form of digital rights management (DRM) that prevents you from playing video over DVI and HDMI connections (in my case) if you don't own compatible hardware that can decode the signal properly. (In other words, HDCP is more crap DRM that does nothing but irritate legitimate customers.) Although I had downloaded the movie legally, my monitor apparently was too old to include HDCP and thus wouldn't display my movie.
Kudos to Apple for refunding his money, though.
Also worth pointing out that anyone who pirated this movie will have no problems watching it whenever they want on whatever hardware they want.