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> So now it only serves to create incompatibility issues and bugs for paying users. Even though it has been irrelevant for more than a decade.

Hey that's me! Every time I open a website that has DRM to the max like Spotify or Netflix, my second monitor goes black for like 10 seconds. Fun times.

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Every now and then, my AppleTV will display a message stating that it can't play my home videos of my cat to my TV because the TV doesn't respect copy protection.

I just restart the AppleTV and everything works again. I don't know what causes it, but it's been going on for at least five years across multiple AppleTVs, two televisions (Samsung and LG), and OS updates. But it persists, just like the AppleTV bug that kills all audio if I turn off the TV without turning off the AppleTV first. Again, the solution is to restart the AppleTV.

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