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Cancel Netflix if you'd rather use Silverlight than HTML5 video.


This.

Netflix would like to add DRM to HTML 5 so they can migrate away from Silverlight. Right now there is no way (without Wine) to use Netflix under Linux. So in practice the FSF is campaigning against a more open web in which the #1 FOSS OS can run Netflix out of ideological reasons.


There are no plans for implementing on linux if DRM is added to HTML5 either (and it likely won't). As a linux user for 8 years I would love Netflix on linux but I don't believe it's going to happen.




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