Playready acting strangely

[dougpowers1965]

So today I discovered, after looking at my latest recordings, that I got the "can only play this content on the same computer....blah, blah, blah. The only change was I redirected where to save the recordings were saved ( a different hard drive on the same computer) as the previous one was filling up. I even started a new recording live, watching protected channels live worked fine, but the new recording still gave the same message, even AS it was recording. So I thought, maybe if I switch it back to the previous drive it will work again, and voila, it did. Works as normal. What gives? Thoughts?

[Space]

I don't think I've ever seen this problem reported before. Just re-pointing WMC to use a different recording drive should not cause any issues with DRM.
When you record a new DRM protected program, it should put the license in the "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\PlayReady\mspr.hds" file and as long as the signature of your system does not change, it should be able to play back the DRM recording using the license in this file.