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Netflix Using HTML5 Video For ARM Chromebook
sfcrazy writes "Netflix is using HTML5 video streaming instead of using Microsoft's Silverlight on Chromebooks (which now supports DRM for HTML5). Recently Google enabled the much controversial DRM support for HTML5 in Chrome OS to bring services like Netflix to Chromebooks using HTML5."
Still no word on general support for GNU/Linux, but x86 or ARM, what's the difference? (If you're ok with DRM at least.)
Yes. Everybody wins. Except consumers, who can't record it, can't excerpt it for fair use, can't back it up, can't move it to a later media format, and so will lose their investment eventually either because the media is obsolete or because the media the content is provided on has gone bad.
So, yeah, absolutely, everybody wins.
Not.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
I can live with DRM for a rental service. I am more interested in features, performance, and usability. There are other reasons I would complain about Netflix before getting into the DRM.
Purchases on the other hand are an entirely different kettle of fish.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
If you're not okay with DRM, then you probably don't care about Netflix, as it's entirely based on the concept of you not owning any of the content they provide to you. So what does it matter? DRM isn't cool, but Netflix is a creature that lives entirely inside the DRM-isphere, so if you want Netflix, you're gonna get DRM. Just be happy when it shows up in Linux, regardless of rights management.
You know... delayed gratification
Except the U.S. Congress keeps extending this delay. It's already well over a decade past the human life expectancy.