S.O.S. on Windows 7 Media Player 12

Lenny_zwik: Privacy Statement is included with Windows 7. You can refer to Recommended Settings/ What this Feature does/ The Player (Windows Media Player 12) can automatically obtain Media Usage Rights when needed (for more information, see Microsoft Digital Rights Management).
Everytime you use Windows Media Player, and load a CD Disk, the Disk gets scanned. The information automatically gets sent via Online to WindowsMedia.com. The Information is scanned for Media Usage Rights and Digital Rights Management. The CD will not play unless Windows Media Player gets the Copyright green light from WindowsMedia.com. Ditto for DVD-Audio, DVD-Video, Music Files, Downloads, Ripped Copies, and all other Media. None of my Media has ever been required to be scanned this way prior to playback. Forget CD-R's of my own Music, no Copy
Right Records are going to exist in WindowsMedia.com Databanks. Not allowing Internet access to my Media, pretty much kills Downloading. Replacing the Windows Media Player with another Media Player, still leaves the Protocols in Internet Explorer that automatically link Media Player/Windows Internet Explorer/ Online straight to
WindowsMedia.com everytime you stick a Disk in the DVD-ROM,
Download or transfer Music Files. Oh yeah, this baby is definitely a Mouse Trap, and they even had the insidiousness to call this thing a Privacy Statement. As if they are looking after your own interest and Privacy.
Congradulations, fellow PC Music Server users! Another fine mess of a Snake-Oil Format that you have gotten the guilible Buying American Public to sink their money into!
I really can't handle all of this convenience!

Ponnie: You don't use Media Player at all? Is this a Windows 7 System with Windows Media Player 12? What about
the automatic Online link to WindowsMedia.com, that kicks in everytime you stick any Disk into the DVD-ROM? What about the automatic scanning of that Disk by WindowsMedia.com for Media Usage Rights prior to allowing the Disk's use/ Ripping a Copy/ or Playback? Ditto for Downloads, Transfering Music Files, and Burning Copies? There has to be a Program outside of Windows Media Player 12, that automatically links you Online to WindowsMedia.com, weither you want to go there or not! Is this Program installed in Internet Explorer? If so, how do you get rid of it? Will this Program interfere with your usage of a different Media Player for Downloading, Playback, Ripping, Burning, or Internet access to do any of these? Anytime I load a CD, I am linked (being monitored) by WindowsMedia.com within a microsecond. Choose not to go there, and you loose Internet access to your Media Player-that pretty much squashes Downloading, unless that is the whole idea? Sounds a little too convenient (premeditated) by Microsoft for me! All exits are conveniently blocked! I really can't handle all of this convenience!

Just to recap. Everything I do from Playing Back Disks-CD, DVD-Audio, DVD-Video, and CD-R. Everything I do from Ripping, Burning, Playback of Music Files, Transfering Music Files, Downloading of Music Files, Upsampling, and Downsampling. Everything that I do with my Media, I have to get permission or Green lighted by outside Online monitoring by WindowsMedia.com/ Media Usage Rights? This is a benefit from Windows 7? I can skip all of this by using a CD Player? I am the only one that has a problem with this? What if WindowsMedia.com makes a mistake with its Media Usage Rights? What if half of my CDs are unplayable, or unrippable by a WindowsMedia.com mistake? Who do I see about that? This is perfectly acceptable to everyone? Are you sure that you can handle this convenience? It is way too much convenience for me!

Simple questions: Does Media Monkey, Foobar 2000, Roxio, or Nero utilize DRM (Digital Rights Management) with their Downloaded or Ripped Music Files? If so, what does this do to my CDs from 5-10 yrs. ago that I want to Rip to Hard Drive? Because these Disks have no Media Usage Rights stored on Disk, does Digital Rights Management block me from Ripping these Disks? WindowsMedia.com has already pulled up the wrong playlist on several of my CDs. Obviously, it will cross reference songs from different Albums by mistake. Obviously, it will also cross reference the Media Usage Rights by mistake in the same manner. I can be blocked from ripping a song that I have Media Usage Rights for by mistake. How do you correct this?

No Answer! Well then, I guess that you can't rip everything from your CD Collection to your Hard Drive after all. Well, that doesn't quite match the promotional
punditry that I have been reading for PC Music Serving! It
is so convenient, your Music at your fingertips, you won't
have to mess with piles of CD Jewel Boxes again, you can listen to your Music in any room in your House, and it is
s-o-o-o-o-o convenient! You will never go back to your CD
Player again! Uhh, don't throw away that CD Player just yet! Your wonderful PC Music Server might not play PROTECTED FILES from your CD Collection! That is the Truth of it, STOP glossing over it! The only thing that will play
these CDs IS your CD Player! Heaven help you if your PC Music Server mistakes several of your CDs as PROTECTED FILES when they aren't! Several Songs can be cross-referenced from various Albums, Songs that aren't PROTECTED
FILES can be mistaken as such! You are screwed without a CD
Player! No-one here can even suggest a solution to this problem. Maybe they are just hoping that everyone will overlook this, once they are suckered in to the so-called
convenience! I R-E-A-L-L-Y can't handle all of this Convenience! Everyone else's Convenience at my expense! And you guys SOLD this LEMON to the unsuspecting PUBLIC! You claim that you don't work for Microsoft or the Recording Industry, well you sure as hell are their best advocates! If I were you I would demand a paycheck, you have certainly earned it!