Google to block Android Market movie rental on rooted devices due to copy protection
Bad news for Android users that love to root their handheld devices, as Google is going to block you from accessing the movie rental section of their Android Market if you’ve rooted yours.
Android Central points 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.
Of course, thus far 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.
So, will you stop rooting, just to watch movies from YouTube that you have to rent?
SOURCE via Android Central
