WMP12 media streaming on Windows 7 disregards "Share to nobody"

This is a repost from whirlpool where hopefully someone from MS
support can answer. In particular I am reporting the bug that using
"Share to nobody" under Windows 7 is being disregarded by WMP12 when
it performs media sharing.


I've setup media streaming using Windows 7 and am having various
permission problems. In particular, I find that it shares far more
than you want it to.

There appears to be no way to have your libraries independent to what
you want to share. Adding "My pictures" to the pictures library then
shares this with everybody. WMP 12 tries to make things simple by just
sharing everything in your pictures/videos library, irrespective of
permissions.

This makes Win 7 a pain to use when you want to enable media streaming
to a shared xbox in the living room, but only want to share a select
few of videos/pictures, and not.. uhm.. "private" videos that you only
want to have access to on your own PC while logged in.

So "Libraries" are shared with everyone, and should not be considered
private. The only solution seems that you can only add media that you
want to share with everyone to the "Libraries" and can't use it for
your own private media. However, the "**My** Pictures" folder is
included in the libraries by default. This is insane when you consider
there is the "Public/Pictures" folder that should be used instead.

Win 7 does have the "share with nobody" etc functionality, but this
seems to only apply to the new "homegroup" sharing feature. WMP12
seems to pay no attention to the "share with nobody" permissions and
still shares it.

I had the same problem under Vista, where my personal pictures would
continually get shared via streaming. I ended up keeping my pictures
under my documents folder instead. It's crazy that you can't keep your
pictures in the logical place. It seems "My" pictures is a bit of a
misnomer, it is really "Everybody's" pictures.

Is anyone else using media streaming to an xbox 360 or similar and
Windows 7? How are you controlling the permissions of what gets
shared? MS recommends assigning "ratings" to media to control what
gets shared, but that's a joke. I want to use proper NTFS folder ACLs
and not mess about with application level "ratings" that may get
accidentally set wrong.