Netflix Expands to Canada - Don't Miss Out

[ted leslie]

Moonlight will run the netflix fine, if netflix didn't use drm. 
netflix is probably forced to do that from the contracts with the suppliers.
It may be possible, like with fluendo, that a license could be bought,
but I doubt there is enough interest in it for fluendo to do that (if they even can).
Seems they hardly got enough interest in doing the license deal to
bring wmv, wma, etc to linux, let alone a drm version of it.
If I recall correctly even realmedia doesn't have there drm solution for linux,
nor does helix for that matter. Understandably so, for the most part, a huge 
majority of Linux users don't want drm on the OS, and are proud of this, thus simply 
not to have the option to receive the content (think RMS). That doesn't work out so great
for the small minority that would shell out to have it. Now the fact that there are some
linux devices that play drm (but cannot be used as general linux computers, thereby dove
tailing into GPL2 vs GPL3 thoughts), seems to indicate it just all about licensing and often with
respect to volume there in. I think I read that fluendo had to pay 50k$ plus just to start to 
offer wmv, etc, for linux (and other OS). I wouldn't be suprised if MS wanted 250k$ or more
for a drm video license (and of course incremental after that), making it pretty hard for
fluendo to want to bite, but to a linux integrate device model, with a pure hardware/software and
subscription model, at times it probably works. 

tl

On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 10:07:34 -0400
Eliot Frost <web-d7rjRpVnz4HL3mmD008VJw at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Well, the Netflix streaming client is implemented in Silverlight. I've tried
> running it with Moonlight, and it's not even close to up to working. Plus
> you have to change your user agent to even /get/ to the page, if you try to
> watch under just Linux, it'll tell you your browser is unsupported.
> 
> Both Mac OS and Windows work fine, commonly suggested internet work arounds
> tend to involve virtual machines and hacks like that. If you have seriously
> streamed a Netflix show using Linux, I may have to consider a subscription.
> 
> Eliot
> 
> On 25 September 2010 06:18, Stewart C. Russell <scruss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 10-09-24 23:06 , ted leslie wrote:
> > > i got all excited to , went to site, put in movies and series want/have
> > seen,
> > > lost, spratacus, lie to me, house, startrek, BSG, rome, .. .....  zip!
> >
> > Yeah, the range is pretty crap. Only two of the titles that are on my
> > Zip.ca list are available.
> >
> >  Stewart
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