ITunes HDCP error on a FULLY COMPLIANT SYSTEM

OK, I've just about had enough of this DRM nonsense.
Everyone who pays has to run around for hours trying to find a way to play the stuff they paid for while those who don't pay just sit down and watch! Great way to do business. Great way to encourage people to actually pay for stuff! Well done!
When will the top studio heads realize it's just making us all LOSE more money than we gain!
My system is 100% HDCP compliant.
I can confirm in the Nvidia control panel that both my graphics card and display are compliant and currently running HDCP fine.
But all of a sudden, last night iTunes refuses to play any of my few iTunes movie downloads (of which thankfully there are few, Blu-ray is so much better and the protection is easy to get around so you can play them back properly as you wish, but for a few titles I grew tired of waiting for the studios to get around to releasing them in a proper HD format, Blu-ray, so I finally caved in and tried a few digital downloads and for the other case I got one as promo (along with the Blu-ray).)
I tried re-booting and re-installing iTunes a few times and once it played for about 10 seconds before quitting and putting up the fake HDCP error message.
I can play back Blu-ray stuff just fine even if I turn off AnyDVDHD. So between that and the control panel saying HDCP is running fine, it's obviously running fine.
So I don't know what extreme levels iTunes is suddenly decided to use to verify HDCP, since everything else runs HDCP protected content just fine.
It's pretty ridiculous how many other complains like this I see around too. Can this really be good for business??
And it's pretty ridiculous that iTunes won't even let me watch a movie that I am in. Heck, I even partly funded a movie for which I'm now getting blocked by iTunes, now how is that for the height of irony! RIDICULOUS! Apple get your act together! This isn't good for your bottom line or anyone connected to the industries bottom line nor to any of the millions of loyal paying customers.

I'm sorry, but I don't think that's the problem...
I have a Mac Pro with an Apple Cinema Display 23', and it worked fine, I could watch all movies, until I upgraded my video card for a new one. My MacPro came with an ATI video card, and I it stopped working. So I had to replace it for new one and I've choose a new nVidia gForce 285. Since then I can't watch any HD movie I downloaded from iTunes Store. In this case the problem is with the video card, that is not recognized as an HDCP device or something related. I'm trying to contact Apple to see what can be done with this problem and I suggest you guys to do the same. Some one must realize that some Apple computers will not have configurations 100% made by Apple.
Best Regards
-Bruno

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