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Even though I'm an HDTV fanatic, it wasn't until this past weekend
that I finally made the jump to an HD monitor....
Unfortunately, Hollywood isn't quite as thrilled about my new HD Media
Dream Machine and they've decided to punish me by revoking my Watch
Now privileges from Netflix (NFLX).
[He finds he cannot use new monitor without agreeing to have his DRM
"reset"...]
Before nuking my entire digital library, I decided to call Netflix's
technical support, to see if I could get to the bottom of my C00D11B1
error message.
When I called them they confirmed my worst fears. In order to access
the Watch Now service, I had to give Microsoft's DRM sniffing program
access to all of the files on my hard drive. If the software found any
non-Netflix video files, it would revoke my rights to the content and
invalidate the DRM. This means that I would lose all the movies that
I've purchased from Amazon's (AMZN) Unbox, just to troubleshoot the
issue....
Netflix's software allows them to look at the video card, cables and
the monitor that you are using and when they checked mine out, it was
apparently a little too high def to pass their DRM filters. Because my
computer allows me to send an unrestricted HDTV feed to my monitor,
Hollywood has decided to revoke my ability to stream 480 resolution
video files from Netflix. In order to fix my problem, Netflix
recommended that I downgrade to a lower res VGA setup.
As part of their agreement with Hollywood, Netflix uses a program
called COPP (Certified Output Protection Protocol). COPP is made by
Microsoft and the protocol restricts how you are able to transfer
digital files off of your PC. When I ran COPP to identify the error on
my machine, it gave me an ominous warning that "the exclusive
semaphere is owned by another process."
My Netflix technician told me that he had never heard of this
particular error and thought that it was unique to my setup. When I
consulted Microsoft, they suggested that I consult the creator of the
program. Since Microsoft wrote the COPP software, I wasn't sure who to
turn to after that....
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http://www.seekingalpha.com/article/58905-hollywood-goes-too-far-to-protect-content
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