A friend of mine (yeah, thats it) is trying to download a movie on a popular file-sharing service. I, er my friend, have the entire file, described as a full dvd, about the right size for the full movie (700MB), and a lot of people had it availible, so I doubt the file is bogus. When I try and play it in Windows Media Player, it searches for a license, says acquiring license, and then proceeds to play the movie trailer only. This has happened on more than one attempted file. What could be going wrong here?
I think that sometimes the movie companies themselves will do things like this to try to get people to stop downloading. Makes sense I suppose…
Does this happen when you use other programs to view the video? You might want to try something other than Windows Media Player. I personally like Bsplayer because to me, WMP has way too much stuff on it and it tends to slow stuff down on my computer. BSPlayer is a much more streamlined program.
Your problem is that you are using Windows Media Player, which like most of the stuff Microsoft bundles with Windows(browsers would be another example), works moderatly well, but there are far better third party applications available for free. I reccomend Media Player Classic. Also, Windows Media Player by default is set to send player usage data back to Microsoft. You might want to check your Privacy settings in WMP - goto Tools, Options, and then the Privacy tab.
We don’t allow threads about how to download copyrighted works or how to get around copyright protections.
bibliophage
moderator GQ