How to Watch Netflix in Ubuntu Linux(jeremymorgan.com) |
How to Watch Netflix in Ubuntu Linux(jeremymorgan.com) |
Just torrent your media and play it in VLC. Works better, without WINE, and without subsidizing these dicks.
I suggest trying to find and support media that is offered without DRM in the first place, if that is what you consider important.
So if you care, buy DVDs and ignore DRM afflicted distribution channels.
The problem with Netflix is not just in them using DRM, but in them actively proliferating it, up to pushing to build it into HTML standard. While the general trend goes in the right direction, Netflix pushes into the wrong one.
That said, it may be possible to reverse engineer it.
It's more like Netflix is one of the few services that many people wish to use where they strangely enough have chosen to ignore Linux.
Netflix is using a lot of open source software: Linux, Cassandra, Zookeeper, Java, etc.
And then they sign a sleazy backroom deal with Microsoft and only support silverlight, which is a technology dead on arrival. I don't get it.
He is not saying that the content is bad, he is saying that the provided link is bad. This appears to be the real article (i.e., not blogspam): http://www.iheartubuntu.com/2012/11/ppa-for-netflix-desktop-...
I think the case for owning original digital creations is far stronger than say the case for owning patches of dirt that were here before you were born and will still be here after you're dead. If I make a song or write some software, I'm creating something of my own in the very purest sense. Something that didn't exist before me, something wholly attributable to me. Why shouldn't I be able to own it?
I think that's where our emotions fool us, here.
Let's say I write a song. You hear it and sing it every day. Does the song belong to me? Should I have remedies against you for singing MY song? The whole thing is insane.
The case could be made that you can't own real property, sure. But you will find few to back you when you shoot someone with a shotgun for maliciously singing a song you "own" versus maliciously trespassing in your home.
The "terms" are that I get direct access to the SQL database behind your application for free. You can mess around with your bullshit rights-management "privilege" and "account management" features all you want.
You know exactly what I'm talking about. You know exactly how dumb these "terms" are. Might does not make right. And if you're going to make a stand for some set of principals, can't you find something better to fight for than free mainstream movies?
The analogy of "might" doesn't hold up when it's just signals, to me.
> Music industry already dumped DRM for good.
This is the part that really gets to me. The music industry is still largely dominated by the sort of companies that also dominate video, and music files are vastly easier to trade around due to their siz, and yet DRM in music is nearly completely nonexistent these days. The only difference, as far as I can tell, is that these same companies just think they can continue to get away with it for video.
Really the proper course of action is to give them reason to reconsider that.
Music is cheap to make and people tend to listen many times over, making the try-it-and-purchase-it model a genuine possibility that video doesn't really have.
For example games are hard to produce (and it usually takes a long time). Still you can get very good games DRM free, because in gaming the faults of DRM are especially apparent.
The downside of DRM - it insults paying customers, it lowers the usability of the content (restricting it to selected devices / players etc.), it also doesn't affect pirates, since the moment that DRM is broken by some skillful crackers - DRM free copies are widely distributed.
So let's see - no one benefits from DRM. Who is in downside? Paying users. So what is the point in using it anywhere?
Someone should make a good service (site?) which will list DRM free distributors for various media where DRM is still present in general.
Companies of the RIAA/MPAA style don't operate with common sense and pure logic. Practice demonstrated it multiple times. They are driven by random impulses like paranoia, lust for control and so on. So don't expect them to give you a logical answer why they don't use DRM in music, but use it in video.