I believe in the free Web, which is why I canceled my Netflix account
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Re: I believe in the free Web, which is why I canceled my Netflix account
#2Hope you also stop watching all movies and television, buying ebooks, and purchasing or streaming music, because otherwise you're just funding the entities who are actually the ones driving the quest for HTML5 DRM extensions.
I've said it before, I'll say it again - attacking Netflix is like boycotting the grocery store because of the nutritional content of the food they sell.
Re: I believe in the free Web, which is why I canceled my Netflix account
#3Hope you also stop watching all movies and television, buying ebooks, and purchasing or streaming music, because otherwise you're just funding the entities who are actually the ones driving the quest for HTML5 DRM extensions. I've said it before, I'll say it again - attacking Netflix is like boycotting the grocery store because of the nutritional content of the food they sell.
netflix is the us company to which drm in html5 is the most beneficial as they're the business using it the most.
that doesnt look like a grocery store to me. (the analogy is pretty off course anyways)
Re: I believe in the free Web, which is why I canceled my Netflix account
#4If there is one thing DRM actually makes sense for, it's for streaming content you don't own.
"The announcement is Netflix's latest chess move in their long game to blanket the web in DRM. Slipping a DRM delivery mechanism into the HTML5 standard is the online streaming giant's endgame."
Really? Netflix exists not to disrupt cable and bring streaming video to the masses (not to mention money to its investors), but to proliferate DRM?
I think it's a severe stretch to see breaking the dependency on Silverlight as a bad thing, and if you think rights holders are going to license their content to Netflix without DRM you are living in a fantasy world.
Re: I believe in the free Web, which is why I canceled my Netflix account
#5I don't feel DRM in Netflix is so bad, I would not be happy to have DRM in something I've purchased to own, but since I'm paying a subscription and know fully that I'm not paying to own what I stream, I don't care that they want to use DRM.
Re: I believe in the free Web, which is why I canceled my Netflix account
#6Hope you also stop watching all movies and television, buying ebooks, and purchasing or streaming music, because otherwise you're just funding the entities who are actually the ones driving the quest for HTML5 DRM extensions. I've said it before, I'll say it again - attacking Netflix is like boycotting the grocery store because of the nutritional content of the food they sell.
netflix is the us company to which drm in html5 is the most beneficial as they're the business using it the most. that doesnt look like a grocery store to me. (the analogy is pretty off course anyways)
Nope, the movie studios are the companies to which DRM is most beneficial. Netflix just happens to currently be the biggest distributor.
Let's do a little thought experiment: Let's say #CancelNetflix goes massively huge and Netflix goes out of business next week. Do you think that's actually going to keep DRM off the web? (The studios would be ecstatic at this outcome.)
Re: I believe in the free Web, which is why I canceled my Netflix account
#7Hope you also stop watching all movies and television, buying ebooks, and purchasing or streaming music, because otherwise you're just funding the entities who are actually the ones driving the quest for HTML5 DRM extensions. I've said it before, I'll say it again - attacking Netflix is like boycotting the grocery store because of the nutritional content of the food they sell.
Indeed. I don't know who's behind this site, but reading this screed makes me feel embarrassed for them. What do they expect Netflix to do in response to this? Do they believe Netflix is some Dickensian villain who just wants to make everybody miserable through DRM?
I really doubt Netflix cares that much about DRM. Probably a lot of people there would rather not have it. But they can't have a business without content, and the content owners demand DRM.
If you were in Netflix's position, would you say, "Well, there's no way to do this without DRM, so I may as well close up shop"?
Re: I believe in the free Web, which is why I canceled my Netflix account
#8Since most of Netflix's content is licensed, they may have no choice but to limit it to technologies with DRM. I'm fine with folks dropping Netflix if that's what they want to do, but I don't see it leading to a web where Netflix's content is free.
This proposal has me scratching my head.
Re: I believe in the free Web, which is why I canceled my Netflix account
#9Hope you also stop watching all movies and television, buying ebooks, and purchasing or streaming music, because otherwise you're just funding the entities who are actually the ones driving the quest for HTML5 DRM extensions. I've said it before, I'll say it again - attacking Netflix is like boycotting the grocery store because of the nutritional content of the food they sell.
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Re: I believe in the free Web, which is why I canceled my Netflix account
#10With all due respect to the author there are probably 200 people worldwide who will do this. Tops. Do you know how many customers they'd lose if they started streaming without DRM? Virtually all of them, because all of the major studios would pull their content and Netflix would look like cable access programming.
I get that DRM can be a bad thing in content I purchase. But for streaming content where my access ends when my subscription does -- I have no qualm at all about it.