[GTALUG] Rogers "Anyplace TV" does not support Firefox

[Alvin Starr]

My guess is that the lack of support for Linux is because of the lack of 
built in DRM.

Years ago we were dealing with several IPTV vendors and a common fear 
from the content owners is hackers breaking apart the streams and 
posting them to some torrent site.
To get access to the content the IPTV providers had to provide some 
encryption to the set-top boxes.

So long as the content owners have an unnatural fear of people stealing 
their content it is likely that OS's that are perceived as DRM strong 
will be supported.


On 3/11/19 11:02 AM, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote:
> May I make a suggestion?
> If any of you are members of  the Rogers community boards, or follow 
> them on twitter, please educate them about Linux.  bell has the same 
> problem, or claims to have as much.
> With programs like the TPL training one introducing  people to Linux 
> vastness,  Rogers must know that they  must support the platform.  
> Working around what they are doing without educating them will only 
> keep them vested in Windows.
> Just a thought,
> Kare
>
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2019, William Porquet via talk wrote:
>
>> What about IE Tab extension to Chrome?
>>
>> W.
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 10, 2019, 8:09 AM James Knott via talk, <talk at gtalug.org> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 03/09/2019 05:15 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
>>>> It silently won't allow login from Firefox or Chromium on Linux.
>>>> Since it is silent, I don't know what it is objecting too.
>>>
>>>
>>> IIRC, it also had to Chrome on Windows.
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