iPlayer Can’t Be Virtualised

Gerry posted about his frustrations with the iPlayer, that culminated in this error message:

iPlayer dying

That error message means that it can only be installed on a computer running Windows XP on the bare metal: Microsoft DRM figured out it was being run in a virtual machine and halted, because its easy to crack DRM running in a virtual machine.

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