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The weird caveat here is that you cannot use Amazon Instant Video on any Google-related devices. So you can stream prime on your iOS device or Kindle, but if yo

by naner 13y ago

The weird caveat here is that you cannot use Amazon Instant Video on any Google-related devices. So you can stream prime on your iOS device or Kindle, but if you have an Android or Chromecast you're out of luck.

lukeschlather 13y ago
You can't use Netflix on any GNU/Linux systems.
- techwizrd 13y ago
  You can't use Netflix natively on Linux, but the pipelight[1] project runs the Silverlight plugin through Wine and allows Firefox users on Linux to use Netflix in a native-feeling way. My mother, father, and siblings use Linux almost exclusively and I have installed Silverlight through the pipelight project on their computers. They have no idea that Netflix isn't running natively and no idea that Netflix doesn't support Linux because pipelight integrates it so seamlessly. 1: http://fds-team.de/cms/pipelight-installation.html http://fds-team.de/cms/pipelight-installation.html
  - lukeschlather 13y ago
    Does Pipelight require a functioning TPM to function? I'm a little confused about the mechanisms involved. Netflix's stated desire for strong DRM seems at odds with allowing solutions like Pipelight to function (since it allows their DRM to operate in an 'untrusted' environment. ) I'm of course less than excited about this in general since it makes me feel like Netflix can trust my computer better than I can, and I'd like to be able to say that no one can trust my computer more than me.
    - girvo 13y ago
      This is specifically for their older Silverlight DRM, not the newer HTML5 + DRM spec plan. When they move to the latter, then we who run linux have some major issues coming...
    - sitkack 13y ago
      Netflix can already play on a non HDCP monitor so if someone wants to rip streams via hardware they already can, AND nearly everything you would watch on netflix has already been ripped or gasp is available at the library <-- worst offender, burn them.
    - valleyer 13y ago
      Netflix streams to plenty of machines without a "TPM". Like Macs.
  - gnoway 13y ago
    Related question: can you use this for Prime video? I've never been able to get it to work, so I have a user agent switcher just so I can do Netflix and Prime w/ the same browser.

by naner 13y ago

lukeschlather 13y ago

You can't use Netflix on any GNU/Linux systems.

techwizrd 13y ago
You can't use Netflix natively on Linux, but the pipelight[1] project runs the Silverlight plugin through Wine and allows Firefox users on Linux to use Netflix in a native-feeling way. My mother, father, and siblings use Linux almost exclusively and I have installed Silverlight through the pipelight project on their computers. They have no idea that Netflix isn't running natively and no idea that Netflix doesn't support Linux because pipelight integrates it so seamlessly. 1: http://fds-team.de/cms/pipelight-installation.html http://fds-team.de/cms/pipelight-installation.html
- lukeschlather 13y ago
  Does Pipelight require a functioning TPM to function? I'm a little confused about the mechanisms involved. Netflix's stated desire for strong DRM seems at odds with allowing solutions like Pipelight to function (since it allows their DRM to operate in an 'untrusted' environment. ) I'm of course less than excited about this in general since it makes me feel like Netflix can trust my computer better than I can, and I'd like to be able to say that no one can trust my computer more than me.
  - girvo 13y ago
    This is specifically for their older Silverlight DRM, not the newer HTML5 + DRM spec plan. When they move to the latter, then we who run linux have some major issues coming...
  - sitkack 13y ago
    Netflix can already play on a non HDCP monitor so if someone wants to rip streams via hardware they already can, AND nearly everything you would watch on netflix has already been ripped or gasp is available at the library <-- worst offender, burn them.
  - valleyer 13y ago
    Netflix streams to plenty of machines without a "TPM". Like Macs.
- gnoway 13y ago
  Related question: can you use this for Prime video? I've never been able to get it to work, so I have a user agent switcher just so I can do Netflix and Prime w/ the same browser.