MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP For All

Re:MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP Fo... by lutorm on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @11:40AM (#368385)

Does anyone else think that this is incredibly creepy? If this goes on unchecked, it's just a matter of time until you're not allowed to code unless you have a license from the RIAA...

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Re:MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP Fo... by Tichy on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @12:45PM (#368463)

Well you are not allowed to code for the iPhone unless you have a license from Apple.

I wonder when they will do the same to their desktop computers. It is not as if companies haven't tried that scheme (see Microsoft "certified software" and stuff like that).

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Re:MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP Fo... by Zev on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @07:02PM (#368935)

You can code without paying for the dev certificate. The SDK is a free download.

You just can't put apps on the app store or your phone without having a cert. There's a slight difference.

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Re:MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP Fo... by Tichy on Wednesday November 19, 2008 @06:26AM (#369383)

Well I guess even in the future we will still be allowed to play air guitar, as long as we don't whistle along with the tune.

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