Netflix to Offer Mac Video Streaming in 2008

[Rodimus Prime]

Apple does not want to license FairPlay because if it gets out into the open, it will be reverse-engineered and hacked. Now for audio content that is no longer important because the music industry is moving to DRM-free music.

See to me that argrument to me is just a bunch of BS. I have not seen Microsoft DRM being hack yet. The way around it is the same way you get around apple's DRM. It is not hacking at all but instead changing the computer to output the video music to a file. Slow since it just caputuring the sound and the video off the screen but it gets around it.

I think the real reason is it means OMG apple has to give up some control and they are afraid of having to compete. Instead it choices to use its power to break others. This marketing method works find when one is small in a market but since apple is the major player it not a good system to use. But at the same time the problem is pretty clear.

I think apple way of doing this will come back to bit them. At some point the industry is going to one one standard DRM and the way apple is being they can kiss any hope of having part of it good bye.

 

[CWallace]

I think apple way of doing this will come back to bit them. At some point the industry is going to one one standard DRM and the way apple is being they can kiss any hope of having part of it good bye.

Apple will merely license it and continue to happily sell the hardware that DRM'd content will be used on.

 

[chris200x9]

heh can't wait untill someone comes up with a plugin for VLC to break ms DRM.....rent...transcode....keep it. That would be sweet

 

[Rodimus Prime]

Apple will merely license it and continue to happily sell the hardware that DRM'd content will be used on.

by the time apple figures that out I think they would of kissed all hope of it good bye. Also if I was the record or movie company I would have trouble trusting apple not to change the rules all of a sudden.

 

[Hankster]

Great news, now only if we could get streaming DVDs for new releases

 

[CWallace]

by the time apple figures that out I think they would of kissed all hope of it good bye. Also if I was the record or movie company I would have trouble trusting apple not to change the rules all of a sudden.

If there is one "universal" DRM standard, how can Apple change the rules? If they don't support that standard, then they have no legally licensed content to offer since no content provider would license Apple content to then offer in another DRM standard because it would not be a "universal" standard anymore.

And if content providers do not allow the most popular line of products - the iPod family - to play their content legally, then end-users will buy iPods to play their content illegally - by stripping the DRM off it or copying and distributing physical media without DRM.

"Download. Mix. Transfer." anyone?

 

[McGiord]

If www.abc.com is now streaming HD content for free (minor ads during the shows) why or netflix can' offer something like it?
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[overcast]

If www.abc.com is now streaming HD content for free (minor ads during the shows) why or netflix can' offer something like it?

Because ABC is major network that produced the show and Netflix only makes revenue off of subscribers?

 

[McGiord]

Because ABC is major network that produced the show and Netflix only makes revenue off of subscribers?

I mean about the HD streaming, the quality of abc is pretty good, while the netflix is not, at least from my experience with it.
ABC content current material, most of netflix are old movies.
I wish for the freebies also, and before everyone start giving me lessons on how to run a business, it's just a wish, and I mean not all the movies/tv programs just some incentives/promotions to keep us happy.
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[Matiek]

I would be in heaven if netflix and apple teamed up for streaming videos. I would buy an TV and a 46'' tv the same week.