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Somewhat unrelated questions: Anyone know when Moonlight will support Netflix (if ever)?
by ericmsimons 16y ago
Somewhat unrelated questions: Anyone know when Moonlight will support Netflix (if ever)?
- smhinsey 16y agoI don't have any insider info, but just from having followed Miguel's blog for awhile, my impression is that the Netflix stuff is more related to DRM than anything about Moonlight/Silverlight. I believe it boils down to there not being a PlaysForSure (or whatever their DRM is called, hard to keep them all straight they are so similar) implementation available to them, particularly on non-Windows platforms.
- mdaniel 16y agoWhile I don't have any intelligent thing to say about Moonlight and Netflix, I did want to point out that Netflix streams to a ton of disparate hardware (and OSes, including "normal" ones such as OSX). Thus, I get the impression this is a legal problem more than a technical one.
- pmjordan 16y agoFWIW, Microsoft provides a Silverlight runtime for OSX[1]; for embedded streaming I assume they hand out crypto certificates on a case-by-case basis. So yeah, pretty sure it's a legal thing. [1] although being located outside the US, I can only assume that this is what is used.