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You might want to consider that there were licensing reasons behind this move.

Consider that AppleTV 6.0 now allows "AirPlay via iCloud", which means you can stream tracks you own on someone else's AppleTV where you haven't registered your iTunes account. Such a change might be one of the reasons for FairPlay encryption.

This might be a temporary issue where they open it up if enough people complain.

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I can understand licensing issues. But since Airplay only runs on the local network segment, this shouldn't be an issue.

This has nothing to do with the local streaming issue. Playing via AirPlay is a different delivery mechanism and is tied to the hardware. No impact to Apple since RA doesn't participate in this mode of operation.

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