Drm?

[Vaughn]

I am confused about digitial rights management. When i was experimenting with editing WMV files i dowloaded a codec pack that seem to amoung other things install DRM to my machinge. I was no longer able to view certain WMV files without performing some kind of certification on the internet first.. Obviously i can't have that kind of intrusion so i wanted to delete DRM however to my knowledge you can't.

So i reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled xp home. However it seems i still have DRM installed as it still is trying to connect to some website to certify me as a user when i attempt to play WMV files. I am quite new to XP, is it possible that WMP that comes with XP automatically downloads this DRM without my knowledge? I never had this problem with Win98.

[Kevin AMD]

A good tip: Don't use Winwons Media!

Why?

Microsoft is devolloping DRM even more and it gets better and better, and DivX and others don't have all this 'crap'. Whit better or the same quality .