Netflix and Hulu [Was Re: Computer hardware for sale, cheap]
Alan Johnson
alan at datdec.com
Wed Jan 26 17:05:08 EST 2011
<rant>
Uhg. I feel I new subject coming on, but I don't have the heart to go there
yet. DRM is such a joke. Pirate says: "You put pixels on my screen? I can
capture them." Who do they think they are? DRM serves no purpose but to
make it more difficult for legitimate users to get at the content they paid
good money for. I'm a little annoyed that Amazon's down-loadable option is
for windows only, but their lose since I just use their bandwidth to stream
my videos in the Flash player, over and over and over...
Donkeys.
</rant>
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Alan Johnson
alan at datdec.com
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Dan Jenkins <dan at rastech.com> wrote:
> > There's no equivalent listing I can find in Netflix.
>
> http://www.netflix.com/BrowseSelection
>
> Use the "Watch Instantly" box in the lower left to limit to diskless
> content.
>
> Or try <http://instantwatcher.com/> for a less pretty, but possibly
> more powerful, UI.
>
> > From this discussion, I learned a few things I didn't know. I hadn't
> > realized that Silverlight (required for Netflix) works under Linux. That
> > was pleasing to find out.
>
> Netflix needs Silverlight (an implementation of which *is* available
> for Linux) and Microsoft's DRM libraries (which are not).
>
> -- Ben
>
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