wraggster
May 22nd, 2011, 23:22
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/05/youtubemovies2-1306020590.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/21/googles-blocking-android-market-movie-rentals-on-rooted-devices/)
Rooting your Motorola Xoom won't stop you from getting an LTE hardware upgrade (http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/06/motorola-will-upgrade-your-xoom-to-4g-lte-even-if-youve-root/), but it will throw up a roadblock if you're trying to watch movies rented from YouTube / Android Market (http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/10/android-market-launches-movie-rentals-thousands-of-titles-avail/). Android Centralpoints out a Google support document that details the "Failed to fetch license for [movie title] (error 49)" message users will see when they try to play a movie on a rooted Android device. Only Xooms with Android 3.1 have access to the service right now, but once support rolls out to all Android 2.2 or higher devices in a couple of weeks some will have to choose between their superuser privileges and Google's nascent movie offerings (at least until someone figures out a workaround anyway). So far rooting and jailbreaking hasn't put a stop to other movie rental services for mobiles (iTunes, Netflix (http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/13/workaround-brings-netflix-to-more-rooted-android-users/)) so even if Google blames the movie studios for the policy, it seems like an odd restriction for the company behind the "open" platform to have.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/21/googles-blocking-android-market-movie-rentals-on-rooted-devices/
Rooting your Motorola Xoom won't stop you from getting an LTE hardware upgrade (http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/06/motorola-will-upgrade-your-xoom-to-4g-lte-even-if-youve-root/), but it will throw up a roadblock if you're trying to watch movies rented from YouTube / Android Market (http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/10/android-market-launches-movie-rentals-thousands-of-titles-avail/). Android Centralpoints out a Google support document that details the "Failed to fetch license for [movie title] (error 49)" message users will see when they try to play a movie on a rooted Android device. Only Xooms with Android 3.1 have access to the service right now, but once support rolls out to all Android 2.2 or higher devices in a couple of weeks some will have to choose between their superuser privileges and Google's nascent movie offerings (at least until someone figures out a workaround anyway). So far rooting and jailbreaking hasn't put a stop to other movie rental services for mobiles (iTunes, Netflix (http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/13/workaround-brings-netflix-to-more-rooted-android-users/)) so even if Google blames the movie studios for the policy, it seems like an odd restriction for the company behind the "open" platform to have.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/21/googles-blocking-android-market-movie-rentals-on-rooted-devices/