Apple, HDCP and DRM

There’s been quite a bit of international and nacional hoopla and hubhub about iTunes movies and HDCP, most of it concluding Apple is evil.
Well, Apple is evil, just not particularly on this case.

Most people commenting this issue don’t know HDCP is part of HDMI. In fact, HDMI is just DVI + audio + HDCP and HD playback devices are not supposed to output HD (specially digital HD - the juri is kind of out on analogue) on non “protected”, ie DRMed, ie HDCP, ie HDMI devices. So, MacBooks are doing what every other device that wants to playout licensed HD content must do.
Granted, Apple could play downscaled video to DVI. Either they don’t want to to preserve the HD experience or they just didn’t get around to it.

[26/11/2008 Update: Apple updated Quicktime to allow downscaled playblack on non-HDCP displays. See guys ? ]