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Why There's Still No Netflix App For Android

Posted by timothy on from the wouldn't-exactly-say-I-was-missing-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Why is there a Netflix app for iOS devices and Windows Phone 7, yet no Netflix support for Android? Well, Netflix has been working on an Android app but has run into a few technical hurdles because Android lacks a universal DRM solution which means that the company has to work with different handset manufacturers separately in order to ensure that the installed DRM protocol meets the requirements laid out by the movie studios."

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  1. That's not a bug, it's a feature. by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 0, Troll

    You shouldn't be using netflix anyway.

    Until the world changes, and we get rid of the MAFIAA, and people realise that we need to change the way we pay the authors, that copyright is broken, and that we need a new system ... until that day comes, there's only one simple solution that'll let you live happy, and will let the establishment know that they are doing it wrong by the numbers:

    Free Software, Pirated content.

    So, get your Android device, and start working on a Cuevana extension.

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  2. Netflix DRM isn't all that bad by guyminuslife · · Score: 1, Troll

    This is a DRM article, so of course there's the usual slew of posturing and moral outrage. I don't care for most of the more draconian forms of DRM myself. But there's really nothing particularly horrible about Netflix's usage of DRM, other than that it excludes Linux desktop distros and makes problems for Android. It's very clear that when you pay for Netflix, you're not "buying" any movies, you're licensing the rights to stream them from their servers. It's not a big hassle. Nothing particularly wrong with this model so long as they're up-front about it.

    (This will get modded troll, you watch.)

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  3. Re:PlayReady DRM by MichaelKristopeit181 · · Score: 0, Troll
    you spend your days fantasizing that you are me. i spend my days actually being me. do you NEED to be me? OR, do you NEED to NOT BE YOURSELF?

    you're completely pathetic.

    "MichaelKristopeit175" is operated by a pathetic individual attempting to steal my identity.

    to the individual responsible: i assume you welcome death. present yourself to me; admit what you've done, then i'll bring upon you the ultimate punishment for your transgressions.