Google’s blocking Android Market movie rentals on rooted devices due to copy protection

Rooting your Motorola Xoom won’t stop you from getting an LTE hardware upgrade , nonetheless it will throw up a roadblock in case you are attempting to watch movies rented from YouTube / Android Market . Android Central points out a Google support document that details the “Did not fetch license for [movie title] (error 49)” message users will see once they attempt to play a film on a rooted Android device. Only Xooms with Android 3.1 have access to the service right away, but once support rolls out to all Android 2.2 or higher devices in just a few weeks some should choose from their superuser privileges and Google’s nascent movie offerings (no less than until someone figures out a workaround anyway). To date rooting and jailbreaking hasn’t put a stop to other movie rental services for mobiles (iTunes, Netflix ) so although Google blames the movie studios for the policy, it kind of feels like a strange restriction for the corporate behind the “open” platform to have.

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