An acronym for Digital Rights Management, DRM protection is applied to media files to prevent copyright infringement and unlawful reproduction. The digital encryption is typically used to distribute files that are downloaded commercially. Any WMV file that is encoded with DRM protection cannot be copied, renamed or converted into another format. Nonetheless, a DRM-protected WMV file can be played just as easily as an unprotected WMV file. Since the WMV file format is owned and regulated by Microsoft, it is designed to work natively with the company’s proprietary media player, Windows Media Player. The free application is all that is necessary to play any type of WMV file. Tips Writer Bio
