[placebo]

Originally Posted by bratwurst

5. delete the complete contents of the DRM-folder

bratwurst, your instruction steps are fine but not perfect (otherwise we wouldnt get 3 cases at the end, am i right?). your video is indeed amazing and i am able to reproduce the results (=i end up with case2 on a new Windows system) so i am here to reconfirm that it is very possible to prepare a Zune-ready system.

The step5 (Deleting the DRM-folder) is too radical, too destructive because it includes the deletion of the drmstore.hds file. This file, once it is 100% perfectly set in a WMP10-DRM-environment (with no corruption or whatsoever), is protected against "upgrade attacks" by WMP11-based Zune software. If you delete a good drmstore.hds file, just like that (as suggested by your instructions step5), you destroy a crucial part of the DRM environment and this will lead to case3: indvpage doesnt work anymore.

It is okay/correct to reset the DRM environment from scratch on a dirty WinXP-system (because all of us are on WinXP systems of different degrees of dirtiness) such that a single set of instructions would work for everybody (with no cases1, 2, 3!!!) but the plain and primitive deletion of the DRM-folder is harmful, destructive and does more bad than good.

Please revise this step after reading the following references:

1. You may be unable to play protected content after your computer hardware changes (incl. *Fix it*)
2. When you try use Windows Media Player 11 to play a digital rights management (DRM)-protected media file, the media may not play (incl. *Fix it*)
3. Error message when trying to sign in to or play content from the Zune Marketplace (incl. DRM Reset Tool ResetDRM.exe)
4. How do you manually reset the drm media rights? (incl. DRM Reset Tool ResetDRM.exe)
5. Downloading Licences to play music files on my computer?? (incl. DRM Reset Tool ResetDRM.exe)
6. Migration of DRM Licence fails

Let's note too that there are two (different?) indvpage url's and you may want to check them out both:

http://services.wmdrm.windowsmedia.com/indivSite/en/indivit.asp

http://drmlicense.one.microsoft.com/Indivsite/en/indivit.asp

Your video demonstrates the case2 end state. It doesnt show how you got there. We'd love to see a video where you demonstrate the full path from a clean winXP to the end state of case2..