"This movie cannot be played..." on my iMac

I am getting the HDCP display error on a purchased iTunes tv show on my new iMac. I do not have an external monitor attached and never have. I am simply trying to watch the HD version on my iMac.
Thoughts?

Well, glad to see I'm not alone with this issue. It is strange that it isn't more prevalent but I guess that has to do with the combination of things involved.
I've had no real luck finding out more, Apple simply gave me another download for the film I had rented without really offering any more insight as to what exactly causes the problem.
Summing things up it looks like everyone has the same scenario:
iTunes stored on a NAS (network disk)
Started to play a movie (or movie rental) before the download had completed.
I think you are on the right track scratch009, it is most certainly a DRM issue probably caused by the file transfer to the network disk. Probably irreversible considering the point of DRM to begin with.
The only two workarounds to avoid this that I can see are:
Let the film completely download before viewing.
Temporarily change the library location to somewhere on the local disk - and then move it later. That will ensure that you don't encounter issues with movies you've purchased as well.
Thanks for the replies, hopefully we can at least bring enough attention to this that others are able to avoid the issue in the future.

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