Okay, I just bought a Bluray drive and rented a couple Bluray movies, to see if it'd work.

Movie starts up to a blue FBI thing, and then it gives me an error message and shuts it down. After some further research I find out that the culprit is this shittastic system called HDCP. Well, my monitor supports HDCP for HDMI ONLY. So, I go out and buy a converter, DVI to HDMI, and hook that up. Well, that fucks up my monitor, and it looks like it zoomed in (so I can't see my start bar and icons on way left column), and it looks like the screen got shifted to the left (theres a huge black bar on right i can't go past).

Is there an affordable way (I am NOT paying for an illegal software) to bypass HDCP? Why isn't DVA HDCP enabled? WHY MAKE IT SO HARD?

Illegal software is always free, dude.

http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvdhd.html
Sup.

Uhh are you sure you have an hdcp ready video card?
and considering you were crazy enough to buy a blu ray drive..is it really that much to spend a little more? (isnt a blu ray dvd player better then a blu ray drive?)
so if you dont want to spend money..you have to do illegal options..

My vid card is not the problem. It's an 8800 GT from nVidia, but unfortunately has only 2 DVI slots.