[OT] - Netflix

[Juan]

Juan Pablo

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From: Mike McGinn <mikemcginn at mcginnweb.net>
To: Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions 
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Sent: Tue, Sep 13, 2011 10:05 am
Subject: Re: [OT] - Netflix



On Tuesday, September 13, 2011 09:37:36 Bruce Pieterse wrote:
> On Sep 13, 2011 3:18 PM, "Hal Burgiss" <hal at burgiss.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Bruce Pieterse 
<octoquadza at gmail.com>
>
> wrote:
> >> On Sep 13, 2011 2:29 PM, "Hal Burgiss" <hal at burgiss.net> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Hunter Poe 
<poe.hunter at gmail.com>
>
> wrote:
> >> >> Here's what I really don't get is last time I visited their 
site on
>
> Ubuntu and they told me Chrome OS was a supported platform. I could be
> wrong but my understanding is that Chrome OS is a Linux distro that is
> proprietary, or at very least uses the Linux kernel. So why the heck
> doesn't it work on Ubuntu?
>
> >> > Interesting ...
>
> 
http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/2011/08/12/netflixs-chrome-os-plugin-may-be-one
> -of-googles-first-native-client-examples/
>
> >> >Hal,
> >>
> >> You could try a user agent switcher in firefox to emulate another
> >> browser
>
> and/or OS. Most web based apps use that to distinguish if the user is
> running the right os and browser in order for the site to work 
properly and
> allow the service to be used.
>
> >> Just remember that you won't be able to contact support if the 
above
> >> does
>
> work to some degree as they already have warned you that it won't 
work with
> Linux.
>
> >> Good Luck!
> >
> > Well, in this case you need Silverlight (or other approved DRM
>
> technology). If its just a user agent setting, the world would have 
known
> about that years ago.
>
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> > Hal
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> Lol, true. I'm not familiar with the service and wasn't aware that it
> required silverlight. My apologies.
There is something called "moonlight" is lucid which is a silverlight 
clone.

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   But without DRM. I will try copy paste dlls from windows on linux 
only
to see.