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Microsoft doesn't license their PlayReady DRM components unless it is hardware secured. The only Netflix platforms that Linux works on have PlayReady chips in t
by drivebyacct2 16y ago
Microsoft doesn't license their PlayReady DRM components unless it is hardware secured. The only Netflix platforms that Linux works on have PlayReady chips in them basically - Roku, and Boxee literally JUST got Netflix support.
Moonlight absolutely doesn't work in Ubuntu. And Silverlight runs like a dog in a VM, even with 2d/3d accel (and turned off since they're not 100% stable) and that's giving my VM 3 cores and 3 GB of my memory, AND it's on a separate hard drive than my host OS.
Netflix is completely worthless to Linux users. I welcome competition from Amazon.
- jrockway 16y agoMicrosoft doesn't license their PlayReady DRM components unless it is hardware secured So you mean to say that the average Windows XP box is "hardware secured"? I think you mean, "Microsoft doesn't license their PlayReady DRM components to anyone that isn't big enough to hurt its adoption".