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First post, by Myloch

Posted on 2016-12-15, 14:32

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Helloooo
I have an old original wmvhd dvd (shall we dance). However it tries to connect to http://www.mpoonline.com/DRM/video/shall_we_dance/index.htm in order to be able to play the movie.
Obviously the drm website is down forever! 😵

any idea how to circumvent this s h i t (except buying the movie again on another medium, watching it on tv, downloading another hd video from legal or illegal sources?). Please PM me.

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Reply 1 of 4, by vladstamate

Posted on 2016-12-15, 16:29

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If all that is doing is reading that page can you not fudge it by playing around with the hosts file or your router and direct it to some other page html file?

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Reply 2 of 4, by Solarstorm

Posted on 2016-12-15, 16:44

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I just threw out a WMVHD DVD because of that. 😒
The licensing servers are down, no chance to use it again.

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Reply 3 of 4, by Jorpho

Posted on 2016-12-15, 17:33

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vladstamate wrote:
If all that is doing is reading that page can you not fudge it by playing around with the hosts file or your router and direct it to some other page html file?

That was my first thought, too, but I don't think it will do much good without whatever was originally stored on the server, and a bit of Googling does not suggest anyone has gotten that far. There's nothing on archive.org either.

A couple of years ago I was looking into removing the DRM from some .wma files from "Napster"; it looked like it was possible to do it by exploiting vulnerabilities in particular versions of Windows Media Player. But I gave up pretty quickly.

Reply 4 of 4, by shiva2004

Posted on 2016-12-15, 22:23

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Jorpho wrote:
A couple of years ago I was looking into removing the DRM from some .wma files from "Napster"; it looked like it was possible to do it by exploiting vulnerabilities in particular versions of Windows Media Player. But I gave up pretty quickly.

Yes, it's posible (I've done it) but not easy or intuitive, and the biggest drawback is that you need to be able to obtain the DRM key first, so in your case it's not going to work.

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