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The UK equivalent of Netflix called "Lovefilm" also moved from working fine under Linux (via Flash) to requiring Silverlight and of course moonlight doesn't wor
by jiggy2011 14y ago
The UK equivalent of Netflix called "Lovefilm" also moved from working fine under Linux (via Flash) to requiring Silverlight and of course moonlight doesn't work.
Their reasoning was that Silverlight had better DRM so people couldn't rip the films. However they also offered a DVD rental service , so you could get any of the streamable films (plus a load more) delivered through the post at which point it would be trivial to rip them.
I haven't looked but I'm pretty sure all of the films they offered for streaming are available as torrents too and probably at much higher quality.
- DrJokepu 14y agoLovefilm is not the equivalent of Netflix in the UK, it’s its direct competitor.
- jiggy2011 14y agoThat is true that both are now available here. For a while Lovefilm was the closest thing you could get to netflix.
- mmanfrin 14y ago> you could get any of the streamable films (plus a load more) delivered through the post at which point it would be trivial to rip them. Quibbling here, physically ripping a DVD is much less trivial than simply recording a stream.
- w1ntermute 14y agoDepends on how much DRM that stream has. In the case of Netflix, I'd say it's a lot easier to rip a DVD.
- Dylan16807 14y agoReally? In my experience, while ripping videos from the web is easy, ripping flash streams is a huge pain. Where a DVD just needs easily available software and hitting go. If you know a good way of ripping streams please tell me, wrangling Orbit's invasive and buggy plugin was the only thing that worked to grab RTMP the last time I tried.