Windows Media DRM is Corrupted

t buy a Western Digital ‘My Book World Edition’. The only way to stop more DRM’d garbage like this from being made in the first place is to not buy it when it gets produced. Oh and of course, also don’t buyDRM’d audiotracks; if you’re going to buy music downloads (rather than say ripping CDs you bought so as to get higher quality; FLAC is very nice :), do it in a non-DRM’d format, like MP3.

Chris Pirllo wants to have sex with DRM

Chris Pirillo recent experience with DRM shows exactly why its a horrible horrible technology that should never be used.  Im sure neither MSFT, Urge or any of his other online music providers will replace his music either.

Ah, DRM… As a Linux user I don’t usually run into that landmine. Usually. The other day I stopped at McDonalds for a bite to eat and they have a ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ contest where you get codes on large drinks and fries and enter them on a website. I didn’t win :) But… I was offered a ‘free music download’.

“Pirates_of_The_Caribbean-_Dead_Mans_Chest_Medley.wma”

Cute. OK. Hmm… In the fine print it says that it won’t play on Macs or on iPods.

I try it and it won’t play in Totem or Mplayer or VLC… Codec problem? Nope; I have the naughtly w32codecs package installed. Xine was kind enough to inform me that the “Media stream [is] scrambled/encrypted” Its DRMd. Yay.

Looks like I have an interestingly named paperweight on my desktop now ;)

There USED TO be a way to back up your DRM via Windows Media Player. I blogged it here: http://www.techlifeweb.com/2006/02/licensed-content-in-windows-media.html
I was just checking today and MS has _disabled_ that feature in Windows Media Player 11.
Nice.

“DRM is teh shiz.” Yo, Yo, Chris — stands for “Da Runs Man”.

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It’s not the DRM that has an issue. It’s an error in Urge. I had the same issue on a clean install of WMP11 on a clean install of WIndows XP. It’s BS, and Urge has no idea how to fix it. I’ve been around and around with them about this already.

How ironic. I got this message today when trying to sync my Creative Vision M today even though I could do it successfully until then. Luckily I rebooted and it worked again. Weird.

I had the same issue when I first tried Urge (before I downloaded any content). I don’t know if this screws up your licenses if you already have files.

I resolved it by doing the following:
Move/Delete all files in %allusersprofile%\DRM
Visit http://drmlicense.one.microsoft.com/Indivsite/en/indivit.asp
Click Upgrade
Restart Urge

[...] Forskellen pÃ¥ undertegnede og f.eks. en fyr som Chris Pirillo som køber DRM’et musik først, og lærer lektien bagefter mÃ¥ være at hvis han kan lide et nummer sÃ¥ køber han det, DRM eller ej – hvorimod jeg afskyr DRM og alt dets væsen sÃ¥ meget sÃ¥ jeg aldrig kunne finde pÃ¥ at lange penge over disken i første omgang. [...]

Heh, none of the OD2 front-ends work. If you want DRM that works go with iTunes – otherwise I’d just stick with Emusic if I were you.

I just bought a new computer and it did the same thing when I loaded it. Wierd thing is – it works on my laptop perfectly. I hope they fix it – URGE is the only thing that works well with my MP3 player.

Thanks Bucky, that did it. Nice little hidden directory there, %allusersprofile%\DRM.

hah, when i tried to go to my all users folder in windows, it crashed! and when it rebooted i didnt have the heart to click the down arrow in GRUB to go back to windows. Linux FTW!

Ohhh! I just feel so bad for Microsoft sometimes