[clue] calling Netflix

[Chris Ernst]

Sadly?  I love my Roku =)

	- Chris

On 05/11/2011 03:26 PM, Grant wrote:
> Sadly enough, Roku is Linux.
> -- 
> Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
> 
> Chris Ernst <penguin-guy at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>     On 05/11/2011 07:02 AM, Louis Miller wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Yeah, I
>     did some more research, late last night. I discovered I wasn't the
>     first Linux user who wanted to stream Netflix. I found out about the
>     Playready DRM issue. Is there some clause in the contract between MS
>     and Netflix to not release a Linux version for a specified period of
>     time. I even found the company's blog and they don't even seem to
>     hardly even mention the word Linux. I signed a petition, online, for
>     Netflix to release a version of streaming for Linux. It can't be a
>     cost issue, because the Linux community would create a version of
>     Moonlight with DRM for free. Maybe, they are concerned that if the
>     Linux community creates a DRM version of Moonlight that it would be
>     easily hacked. > > Then, one guy on a website said that the Linux
>     community could create it's own streaming video service and leave
>     out the other platforms, like the Ubuntu Software Center. I would
>     imagine Ubuntu has thought of it and there must be problems with it.
>     > > Well, Google Chrome is probably going to come to the rescue. It
>     will probably attract a lot of attention, and Netflix may not be
>     able to ignore that market. The other guy thought that Netflix
>     streaming would be built in from the beginning. It might be Linux
>     re-branded into an easy and attractive package, just like Apple is
>     UNIX under the hood, and people use that and don't even think of
>     themselves as UNIX users. > It's not a technical issue. PlayReady
>     works fine on Linux. In fact, there are many Linux based Netflix
>     streaming devices. It is an issue of licensing and DRM. The Movie
>     and TV studios don't want you to be able to capture the stream and
>     save your own copy. So Netflix is contractually obligated to take
>     reasonable measure to prevent that in order to have access to the
>     studio's content. PlayReady is the DRM layer that prevents you from
>     saving the streamed content in any usable format. Companies that
>     embed PlayReady or distribute it have to pay licensing fees to
>     Microsoft. It is not freely distributable. - Chris
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