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"Acquiring License" When Downloading Videos From P

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Awright, so when I dl movie clips from a p2p client (nothing illegal, mind you) 9 times out of 10 it says it is "acquiring license" which it then fails to acquire, preventing the clip from playing.

So...eh?
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that happens to me too. With pr0n. what have you been downloading? :P
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Um...items. Of various types. Ahem.

Did you figure out a way around it?
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Sounds like stupid shitheads encoding it into wma format and leaving the "Copy protect music" option on! This locks the music so it can only be decoded on the person who ripped it's computer.
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HemlockGrey wrote:Um...items. Of various types. Ahem.

Did you figure out a way around it?
no, which is why i don't even bother with .wmv's and .wma's anymore. unless somebody here knows of an effective crack somewhere.
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