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Follow up to Netflix PRA follow up to the previous post: Netflix sent me a form letter telling me that I'm probably not going to get a response. Nice. I'm not going to bother to post it, because it's just a crappy canned form letter telling me to call their assy support service. It suddenly occurred to me that I could try running IE as "Administrator" might give the netflix Drm component installer the ability to stick it's dcik in my PC and come up juicy. Bing Bang, boom. Vista's all sexed up and can play videos again. ANd might be pregnant. You never know. DRM does nothing to prevent piracy and hassles the rest of us. I do believe that content creators deserve to be paid for their work, however, I don't think the front line consumer should have to pay for the brunt of it. This is a debate for another day. I'll just say this. It was me, and not any sort of caring on the part of netflix, that has restored my ability to stream netflix movies on demand on my windows pc. Thanks for nothin, Netflix.
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I love Netflix and when they
I love Netflix and when they released their online viewing I was tickled - until I found out I could only watch it on IE.
To make matters worse, being the web dork I am - when IE8 beta came out, I downloaded that. I forgot that it was going to uninstall IE7 in the process. Tried Netflix with IE8 - didn't work. Love.ly. So I scramble trying to figure out how to uninstall IE8, reinstall IE7, and install IE8 beside it. Hassle. Then I just gave up and decided that I can just wait until Netflix *allows* me to watch it on IE8.
Then I thought - wait! IE8 can emulate IE7. Would Netflix know? Tried it and it works!
Still not pleased that I can ONLY watch my movies on IE ONLY on Windows, but calling them and asking if they plan on doing something otherwise in the future was moot. They gave me a spiel about how Macs don't offer the DRM and everyone knows Linus users are just pirates.
Right, right.
So DRM fucks us again. :{
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