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Rooted Devices Blocked From Android Movie Market

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-movie-for-you dept.

tekgoblin writes "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)."

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  1. (Or at least until a workaround is found) by Palmsie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which will be in about a week.

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  2. Rats! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    And I was totally planning on abandoning Netflix and BitTorrent in favor of yet another half-baked movie service!

  3. Re:Android by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Funny

    Android has kinda been a fiasco. Security problems, malware, hardware fragmentation, software piracy and now this blocking of rooted devices. Wasn't Android supposed to be open?/blockquote

    No kidding. It's almost as bad as the iPhone.

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