How to remove drm from wmv?
It seems like one of the popular questions of the moment, "How do I remove drm from wmv?" - this enables you to play a windows media video file without aquiring a license from the digital rights management server.
Removing drm from wmv can be done in several ways, which we will look at in a moment, however the first releases of Windows Media Player 10 have had a loophole in which viruses can be distributed.
Latest new about Digital Rights Management can be found here. 
How can a virus can get into your system when aquiring a DRM license for a WMV file?
If you try to play a downloaded Windows Media File that has been protected by the DRM License for the first time, Windows Media Player will try and find the license on the PC.This DRM license feature automatically launches Internet Explorer and takes the user through the license aquisition process. The license dialog box behaves just the same as a normal like an Internet Explorer window, and this HTML code can be malicious script. This of course is not a problem if the WMV file has been bought and paid for, but more often than not it has come from a file sharing program such as Kazaa.
It has been found that many WMV files on Kazaa are DRM protected, but when the license is aquired, it fires off a load of pop up ads and other unwanted junk, spyware and malware. An attempt to hijack the browser is also common. This was also true of song files as well as video files.
If you capture the video/audio you cans ave it any format, I think he downloaded them. There is no way to do that, and besides you should buy this if you support it.
Yes capture will defeat DRM, I use Adobe Audtion for Audio and Ulead for Video, you need to also set up the internal settings but it works.
I captured some free videos from VH1 site. The streaming videos can only be opened with Windows Media Player 9 after getting licence online. Than you have, I think, 15 plays offline and then you have to obtain another online licence.
How do I save the video? I have WMV files but I need to be on the internet in order to play it.
If you have full file on your hard disk (not an asx link) and it can only play online, 100% sure it's DRM protected.
I haven't found so far program to remove it from wmv.
Also problem here is that it can only be played on Windows Media Player 9 or 10, so players like VLC can't be used to dump output on disk.
Screen Capture software captures images from your screen of course and no DRM of course. It can capture whole screen, desired region or window in preferred frame rate and in preferred format.
If you have powerful CPU and video card, the results could be very satisfying. With properly set options quality loss of screen captured video is virtually unnoticeable. The best programs are Camtasia Studio from Techsoft and River Past Screen recorder. The problem is audio saving along with video. For that you must have Total Recorder installed. So that screen capturing software can use TRs drivers as capturing devices for audio.