Extremely annoying and similar: if a Mac is playing back purchased content in iTunes, any anybody has a Remote Desktop connection to that Mac open, it will show that same checkerboard "fuck you, consumer peon, your corporate overlords prohibit you from viewing this content" view.
This happened to me when we had people over for dinner, somebody wanted to show some video, we bought it from iTunes (in the dining room while eating), and it wouldn't play back.
Of course, at that point we gave up so as not to let DRM ruin dinner. Later, I discovered that it was because somewhere in the house there was a notebook remoting to the TV mac (normal, since that is how we mainly control it).
I don't think this has any underlying technical rationale (hardware acceleration, etc); I'm sure it is just a relic of Apple's deals with the 'content providers'.
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Extremely annoying and similar: if a Mac is playing back purchased content in iTunes, any anybody has a Remote Desktop connection to that Mac open, it will show that same checkerboard "fuck you, consumer peon, your corporate overlords prohibit you from viewing this content" view.
This happened to me when we had people over for dinner, somebody wanted to show some video, we bought it from iTunes (in the dining room while eating), and it wouldn't play back.
Of course, at that point we gave up so as not to let DRM ruin dinner. Later, I discovered that it was because somewhere in the house there was a notebook remoting to the TV mac (normal, since that is how we mainly control it).
I don't think this has any underlying technical rationale (hardware acceleration, etc); I'm sure it is just a relic of Apple's deals with the 'content providers'.