For the longest time getting Netflix has been a pain in Linux because it required Microsoft’s Silverlight to run on the desktop using Linux. Now they’re talking about getting rid of Silverlight as soon as they come up with a DRM scheme for HTML5. You can read the article here:
The Netflix Tech Blog: HTML5 Video at Netflix
On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:16:04 +0000, Rudemeister wrote:
> For the longest time getting Netflix has been a pain in Linux because it
> required Microsoft’s Silverlight to run on the desktop using Linux. Now
> they’re talking about getting rid of Silverlight as soon as they come up
> with a DRM scheme for HTML5. You can read the article here:
>
> ‘The Netflix Tech Blog: HTML5 Video at Netflix’
> (http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/04/html5-video-at-netflix.html)
>
>
And yet even still they only talk about Windows and OSX. I’ll be a happy
Netflix customer if they actually support Linux, but I’m not holding my
breath - I’ll believe it when I see a working solution on Linux. They
already have one, at that - it runs on ChromeOS - and they explicitly
prevent it from working on Linux. I wouldn’t be surprised if they
implemented some sort of platform check and still disabled it for Linux
users.
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
Crazy fellows. I see Similar thing, in case of SeaMonkey and Firefox addons. Most of Fx addons can be used on SeaMonkey once two lines of code are added. But people never make addons compatible with SeaMonkey.
I have read before that commercial enterprises will not consider Linux because they also don’t think the users will ever buy anything. They think since Linux is free, that the users would rather steal than legitimately pay for anything. I’ve personally bought quite a few things for my Linux boxes. If they insert code to intentionally disable Linux I will really get pissed.
I actually use Windows inside of a VM but this is not usable for netflix since video has lines in it and looks awful. I use the installation for tax software, development (work stuff) and to update and backup my phone. If there was a way to do this with Linux I’d have done it by now.
The issue seems to be that they think we’re all a bunch of thieves that will use the platform to copy from the streams or such. Commercial outfits distrust platforms where they can’t take the user’s control away from them. The flexibility and apparent utility of Linux scares them as they can’t control the users quite as effectively as with Windows and OSX.
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 03:16:03 +0000, f16c wrote:
> I actually use Windows inside of a VM but this is not usable for netflix
> since video has lines in it and looks awful.
FWIW, that’s not a VM issue, that’s a hardware issue. I’ve got three
systems here (my desktop and two laptops) that I run Netflix streaming in
just fine under a VM.
> The issue seems to be that they think we’re all a bunch of thieves that
> will use the platform to copy from the streams or such. Commercial
> outfits distrust platforms where they can’t take the user’s control away
> from them. The flexibility and apparent utility of Linux scares them as
> they can’t control the users quite as effectively as with Windows and
> OSX.
It’s not Netflix who is the problem here - if they want content, they
have to provide it securely or the content providers won’t provide them
with content.
It comes down to the content providers needing to be educated about Linux
users.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
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On 2013-04-26 05:16, f16c wrote:
> The issue seems to be that they think we’re all a bunch of thieves that
> will use the platform to copy from the streams or such. Commercial
> outfits distrust platforms where they can’t take the user’s control away
> from them. The flexibility and apparent utility of Linux scares them as
> they can’t control the users quite as effectively as with Windows and
> OSX.
Which is not true. In my country, it is Windows users which do illegal
things, starting with pirating Windows itself. Almost no one buys
software, like Office. Linux users stay legal, because they use software
that is legally free and/or gratis most of the time, refusing to use
pirated software.
I buy DRM protected ebooks and it pi***s me that I have to boot Windows
to download and install them on my reader.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)