Microsoft added another victim to the support page listing the outdated functions of Windows, thanks to which video playback becomes more difficult under older, already outdated versions of the operating system. The company has decided to stop its legacy DRM (Digital Rights Management) services, which affects the old Windows Media Player, Silverlight clients, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Since last week, media files and streams protected by digital rights management technology cannot be played on machines running these versions.
Back in 1999, Microsoft introduced the first version of Windows Media DRM (WMDRM) with Windows 98, which the company refers to as a legacy DRM solution. The DRM servers made it possible to check the legality of playback when opening protected media files and performed the retrieval of the necessary keys for the Media Player.
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The move also affects Microsoft’s Silverlight technology, introduced in 2007, which was a web application framework for developing Rich Internet Applications (RIA) for web pages. Sites based on Silverlight will also not work.
In practice, all this will mean that under Windows 7 it will not be possible to play protected content in the traditional Windows Media Player, Silverlight clients and Windows 8 clients either. CD playback will not work on Windows 7 clients with Windows Media Player.
The move is not surprising in the light of the fact that the people of Redmond have already shoveled the earth on Windows 7 and Windows 8 anyway, patches have not arrived for this version of the system for quite some time. Those who still insist on playing copyrighted material on old versions will have one more reason to upgrade to Windows 10 or Windows 11.
Source: www.hwsw.hu
