Now this is getting ridiculous. When you buy a movie from iTunes you cannot watch this on your external screen. Yes, seriously. You can not plug in your second monitor, or your 1000$ 30" Apple Cinema Display, drag your iTunes window to that screen and hit play. It just won’t work.
And apparently it’s due to a thing called High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP). Something fancy that Apple added to all Macbook and Macbook Pro’s made after 2008. It should prevent users to pirate iTunes content. But unfortunately it also means that all your VGA and HDMI devices are likely non-HDCP-compliant and you are left to enjoy your freshly acquired 10$ HD entertainment on 13-15" screen.
There are so many things wrong with this that I do not even know where to start. So I just stop here and feel more disappointed that ever.
So what was this pirate-something url again?