[SOLVED] Is HDCP to be avoided?

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Been reading monitor specs these days, seen that some monitors are HDCP compatible and stuff. Tried to research it, because I feared a compatibility problem with my mobo or something. I found that it is somehow associated to DRM. Now, I'm kind of FOSS-y these days and not a fan of DRM at all. Is HDCP some sort of hardwired DRM which I should avoid? Or is it a standard nowadays?

 

[Wolfshadw]

HDCP - High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection.

Pretty much any display that has a digital interface (DVI, HDMI, DP) is going to be HDCP compliant. This just means that any monitor that is HDCP compliant can correctly display digital content that has Digital Rights Management (DRM) encoded into it.

It is not to be avoided.

-Wolf sends