When did Netflix not work under Ubuntu? I have never had an issue using Firefox.
When Netflix used Silverlight, which is for Windows. In Linux, to run Silverlight, you need to use Wine.
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#92Has the DRM for Chrome been cracked yet? It seems that having the complete data flow from the server sent packets through to the displayed data would make it relatively easy to work back and crack it sufficiently to make saving drm-ed streams to a local compressed video format possible. Obviously you could use a modified video driver or grab the data from the actual display - the problem with that would be speed and…
Nobody cares about cracking Widevine to extract 4 Mbps Netflix streams when Blu-ray rips are already available on the Pirate Bay. But if someone does crack it, Google will release a Chrome "security update" that makes it just different enough to make the crack not work, they'll tell Hollywood everything is fine, and the process will repeat until one side gets bored (see iTunes).
I thought Netflix was creating content now that isn't available through other streams; perhaps I'm mistaken I don't use it.
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It makes it sound like Canonical made some sort of concerted effort, didn't they just package Chrome (or do the Chrome people do that)? Packaging and uploading to the repos is work of course but I imagine most of that is automated, the feeling here is that Canonical strived in some way to get this result. I'd be interested to know what Canonical did out of the ordinary to get to this result?
They published updated versions of needed libraries for Ubuntu 14.04 (SRUs), which is not normally done outside of security issues.
Interesting. Is it just the NSS update. Presumably that was a case of packaging the latest version or is NSS a Canonical supported project?
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2014-... seems to be a relevant source.
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It doesn't work on Chromium because of its lack of support for DRM.
Is it possible to install the proprietary DRM module on Chromium? Similar to how you can extract the Chrome flash player and use it with Chromium?[0] [0] http://askubuntu.com/questions/158388/how-do-i-make-chromium...
I'm not certain but I don't think so since Chromium is supposed to be the fully open source version it doesn't support the codecs or Media Source Extensions[0] that make it possible to enable the DRM modules Netflix uses.
You can test for support on Youtube[1] as well (I don't have Chromium so I'm not sure what the results are.)
[0]https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/media-source/... [1]https://www.youtube.com/html5
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#95my problem is that as soon i install chrome, ubuntu becomes unstable...not with chromium, if someone has any advice on how to fix it, i would appreciate it.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is it possible to install the proprietary DRM module on Chromium? Similar to how you can extract the Chrome flash player and use it with Chromium?[0] [0] http://askubuntu.com/questions/158388/how-do-i-make-chromium...
I'm not certain but I don't think so since Chromium is supposed to be the fully open source version it doesn't support the codecs or Media Source Extensions[0] that make it possible to enable the DRM modules Netflix uses. You can test for support on Youtube[1] as well (I don't have Chromium so I'm not sure what the results are.) [0] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/media-source/... [1] https://www.youtu…
Running Chromium 37.0.2062.120 on Ubuntu 14.04, Youtube reports that I am compatible with all 6 formats, including Media Source Extensions.
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You can already suck down all of Netflix with only marginally more effort. Everything on Netflix is already on TPB. DRM is not just harmful, it's pointless.
Marginally more effort makes a huge difference. Linux on the desktop takes marginally more effort to use than Windows or Mac. What difference does that make in popularity? Effort also introduces time lag. If the next episode of Walking Dead takes 24 hours longer to show up on TPB, I'll probably see a bump in legitimate streaming and rentals. I'm not arguing that DRM works, especially in the CS sense that it really ma…
> Effort also introduces time lag. If the next episode of Walking Dead takes 24 hours longer to show up on TPB, I'll probably see a bump in legitimate streaming and rentals.
Popular TV shows are available on TPB within minutes, not hours or days.
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> W3C implementing DRM is only an extension of W3C implementing encryption. why do you think so? Encryption is good for every interested party (except NSA, perhaps) while DRM means at least someone is being screwed. It's like saying that "fast lanes" are only an extension of TCP. (I don't have a strong opinion on whether DRM should be standardized by W3C or not, but I disagree with this reasoning)
In the scenario "Now you can watch Netflix" (which entails implementation of DRM), who is being screwed?
to continue the simile, that is like asking
in the scenario of "you can get more bandwidth" who is being screwed?
Of course, if you think that DRM is a good thing (i.e. inability to have open source implementations, need to load binary blobs, limiting use of content to what the provider decides etc) then yes, DRM is exactly like encryption for you.
Yet, since there is a substantial number of people who do _not_ believe it, this still makes the two things different.
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Alright, I'm going to use an analogy that's a bit thin, but just stick with me on it. Imagine some private organizations decided it would be safer if everyone that came to their establishment had a fully loaded gun with their specified ammunition requirements (I know this is a ridiculous presumption, but just suspend disbelief for a second). So say a bunch of businesses like gas stations and restaurants implement thi…
I'm not sure I follow the analogy, if you want you can use iceweasel for a guaranteed DRM free experience and still use 99.9% of the web.
the analogy is that you can use 99.9% of the web _now_.
Since "everyone has DRM anyway", Youtube can implement it too. Then Vimeo or whatever. And you end up having to use a browser with DRM, or looking at a broken WWW.
(think of what disabling javascript means these days)