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Why? I don't mind Netflix securing their content that they deliver to my device. It doesn't force me to use it by any means. As for the "vPro" technology, that

Why? I don't mind Netflix securing their content that they deliver to my device. It doesn't force me to use it by any means. As for the "vPro" technology, that has been available in many modern Intel computers and is obviously only used if intentionally utilized by a corporate IT environment. I don't see anything there that would prevent me from easily choose Sandy Bridge, despite not really liking the idea of DRM. I don't know why people are surprised by this. I try to explain how the DRM components of Netflix work and why they're able to be used in Linux devices with hardware security. Android has DRM providers that are backed all the way to hardware, I'm assuming this Netflix Chrome extension will leverage some new DRM framework that will be part of Chrome (maybe, maybe not Chromium). And really, in terms of everything, I think it's reasonable.

jodrellblank 15y ago
"Why? I don't mind Netflix securing their content that they deliver to my device." DRM is like those websites which forbid you from right clicking on a picture, and incidentally break tabbed browsing. It's a stupid idea in principle to give someone else control over my computer so they can forbid me from doing something. I understand why they want it, I don't understand why I want it. Consider the present: text arrives on your computer, you can copy it, paste it, edit it. Unless you have Microsoft Office DRM modules, then the document author decides what you can do with it and to whom you can email it. Consider the future: Every email, document, website, video stream becomes an extension of the sender or author and your computer is reduced to a dumb view-only device. Also, there's the argument that the current state is (people who pay, who are hassled by DRM) and (people who don't pay, who avoid the DRM hassles).Criminals get the better experience, people who pay get things they practically can't backup and use on other devices or sample to quote, even in jurisdictions where they have those rights.

jodrellblank 15y ago

"Why? I don't mind Netflix securing their content that they deliver to my device." DRM is like those websites which forbid you from right clicking on a picture, and incidentally break tabbed browsing. It's a stupid idea in principle to give someone else control over my computer so they can forbid me from doing something. I understand why they want it, I don't understand why I want it. Consider the present: text arrives on your computer, you can copy it, paste it, edit it. Unless you have Microsoft Office DRM modules, then the document author decides what you can do with it and to whom you can email it. Consider the future: Every email, document, website, video stream becomes an extension of the sender or author and your computer is reduced to a dumb view-only device. Also, there's the argument that the current state is (people who pay, who are hassled by DRM) and (people who don't pay, who avoid the DRM hassles).Criminals get the better experience, people who pay get things they practically can't backup and use on other devices or sample to quote, even in jurisdictions where they have those rights.