WinMediaPlayer, Enhanced Playback Experience: Any Licence Problems?

[TomBrooklyn]

Win 7
Windows Media Player (12?)
Select Privacy Settings
Enhanced Playback Experience

Can leaving the option to

"Download usage rights automatically when I play or sync a file"

active lead to a refusal-to-play condition when playing movies (or audiobook or music files) that might not have all license information intact in the file?


When setting up Windows Media Player (v12, I think) under Windows 7; which one is required to do when using it for the first time; the user is taken to Select Privacy Options; and in there, under Enhanced Playback Experience, is a checkbox for "Download usage rights automatically when I play or sync a file."

[Guest]

Can't you try it and see for yourself? What is your interest in discussing files lacking proper licensing?

[TomBrooklyn]

Since Win 7 is the operating system on the computer, and Windows Media Player is tied in with the operating system, I don't want to try something that might alter the permissions of the operating system.

[foxyshadis]

If you disable automatic download, then you'll get a popup asking what you want to do every time you play a DRM'd file the first time. If you refuse to send it in, you won't be able to play DRM protected files.

Media player isn't tied into the operating system at all anymore. You can uninstall it. The permissions don't have anything to do with the rest of Windows.