Google blocks rooted devices from Android Movie Market

Google has released the Android Movie Market to Android tablets with Honeycomb 3.1 and in a few weeks for users with Froyo and Gingerbread. However Google has stipulated that the Android Movie Market will only be available to Android devices which are not rooted. So if you have a rooted Android device, don’t expect to download anything from the Android Movie Market any time soon (or at least until a workaround is found).

If a user with a rooted device tries to download from the Android Movie Market they will get a error 49 and a failed to fetch license error. I can understand Google blocking rooted devices for Copyright protection, however it does go against Google and its “open” policy on Android devices. However its probably block rooted devices or lose the Movie licenses on Android Market all together. For now, if you want to download a Movie from the Android Market, make sure your device is not rooted.

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Matt Jurek

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Miguel Pérez

Who will want to keep his own, paid-for device with less functionality and control just to be able to use it as somebody else’s vending machine?

It’s not a problem the movie market will not allow power users to purchase and download movies if these movies can be downloaded elsewhere.
Joel Stockley

As simple as zroot clicking root/unroot to download then continue with rooted access..?
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Anonymous

Effectively, the MPAA is saying that if your device is rooted your money is no good.

So if a rooted user wants to PAY to RENT a movie, they can’t.

Way to go MPAA in discouraging piracy!
Anonymous

Undoubtedly a top-down order from the movie companies, who simply don’t understand that limiting what consumers can do with their stuff is the REASON people pirate it. I would gladly pay for movies from the Android Movie Market if only I could use it on my rooted phone (G2X running a really shaky pre-beta build of CyanogenMod) and show the output on a relatively large screen via HDMI. Personally I’m not one for watching movies directly on a handheld device. But noooo… I should pay for a Blu-Ray player and the physical disc to get that experience. And let’s not forget 15 minutes of unskippable commercials, annoying menus, and FBI warnings not to pirate content.

Film companies defy logic more than any other type of organization.
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So… now Google paved the way for the Amazon Android Movie Store? They already have a nice app store that competes with Google Market, AmazonMP3 with Cloud Streaming, might as well do movies too.
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Anonymous

There’ll be a workaround We’ve already got root access, downloading movies? pfft! Come on!
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