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[Nathan Haines <nhaines@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/23/2014 01:06 AM, Christian Dywan wrote:
> On 23.09.2014 04:04, Nathan Haines wrote:
> > It means nothing of the sort.  It means the story on Ubuntu is the
> > same as it is on every platform: Netflix locks down its service and
> > support is contingent on them releasing an app for a specific platform.
>
> Possibly stupid question: what would stop anyone from providing an
> alternative implementation that's open source? Patents in the DRM?

It's probably more trouble than it's worth now that it's working on the 
browser on the desktop.  It's also probably against the DMCA.  Plus 
Netflix would probably immediately block it and sue the developers 
because if they didn't all of their content providers would pull their 
contracts and Netflix would cease to exist.

Regards,
Nathan

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