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And if you want to use netflix, just use something else than Linux and/or Firefox. It's perfectly fine that competing OS vendors (like Apple and Microsoft) make
by pyalot2 13y ago
And if you want to use netflix, just use something else than Linux and/or Firefox. It's perfectly fine that competing OS vendors (like Apple and Microsoft) make linux less attractive by way of a standard. It's also perfectly fine that competing browser vendors (like Apple, Microsoft and Google) make firefox less attractive by standard. In principle it's always perfectly fine if monopoly holders band together to exclude the competition. We're all down with that. Ohyeah, IE6 was so good, why do we need anything else?
- jiggy2011 13y agoNetflix have never been especially interested in selling to Linux users. Whether or you have this specification is immaterial. If they can't have this, the alternative from their point of view is not stripping the DRM. The solution is standalone player applications or something else.
- pyalot2 13y agoAnd now netflix is also not interested to be streaming to FirefoxOS, Firefox browsers, Opera, Ouya, and upcoming new device from Kickstarter, and so forth.
- jiggy2011 13y agoIt's always been an issue that they are not interested in minority platforms, nothing here changes that. Why do you think they will no longer support firefox browsers? I can't find any source for this.
- K0nserv 13y agoAs I understand it Mozilla is very reluctant to implementing any DRM into HTML5 videos and thus Netflix cannot support them. EDIT: They can't implement it because it would conflict with their license, thanks pyalot2 for the correction.
- pyalot2 13y agoMozilla isn't reluctant. They can't implement the DRM because the license to redistribute the proprietary DRM plugin is such that they couldn't offer their browser under the license they've been offering it.
- jiggy2011 13y agoMozilla doesn't have to license anything. All mozilla has to do is implement the relevant part of the standard. The DRM software itself is provided by a third party, the browser simply provides a mechanism for communication. https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-media/encrypted-media.html https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-med...
- steveklabnik 13y agoI want to apologize for downvoting you, I originally missed the sarcasm. :(
- mtgx 13y agoIs it? It seems another way to restrict competition, just like Amazon restricted competition through DRM for their e-books. Imagine if you could take your Kindles and read them on other apps ("hacking" them and converting to epub doesn't count). What if Amazon goes out of business 10 years from now? Tough luck, you can't read your books anymore.