Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!
Actually, you are all wonderful. Helpful, precise in every way and I thank
all of you for your time. Few points/clarifications:
Chelsea said:
Hello TeaCrumpets,
I do not know a lot about media player 10, but I do know that it
incorporates new technology to for protecting the copyright on music. From
what I have heard this can be quite a pain, particularly if you have a lot
of multimedia files like music which have been acquired shall we say in a
slightly shady way. I understand Player 10 can detect music that has been
shared ie downloaded from someone without being purchased. I would suspect
the messages you are receiving about licences relates to detection of
something that media player believes to have breached the copyright of a
music or video provider. If I am correct, installing another version of
Windows will not fix the media player. I think your best route would be to
install another media player-there are lots of them around and most do not
attempt to police your PC. As you can probably tell I have no shares in a
record company-hope that helps
The only music I ever downloaded was last week (first time - I'm so wet
behind the ears!) and all of it was off of MSN Music. That's why I was so
confused that my licenses were a problem with the Media Player 10 install.
Media Player is making me crazy so I will try the suggestions many of you
have made. I have not had a problem downloading music and playing/burning it
since I restored my computer back to Media Player 9. So clearly there is
something different between the two involving licenses. Thanks to everyone
for being so helpful. I understand ALOT more about XP versions and now
understand that support would have had to come from the original owner's
computer provider. The funny thing is the CD looked retail - I mean it
didn't have "Dell" or "HP" or whatever on the surface of the CD. This will
be the last time I purchase anything that could possibly be OEM because
support is priceless to me.
