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Netflix and HD: a DRM disaster that costs you your videos and control of your hardware
January 3, 2008 11:10am
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- BBtv - Google's "Great Firewall of China": Fun with the Billboard Liberation Front and monochrom
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- BBtv - Kevin Kelly: "Asia Grace," and A Thousand True Fans.
- BBtv "Hacker HOWTO": Cold Boot Encryption Attack
- BBtv - Speed Racer's "photo-anime" hyperreality: John Gaeta interview, part 2.
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the latest
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latest episodes
- Google and China's "Great Firewall": Fun with the Billboard Liberation Front and monochrom
- Cory Doctorow: Show us your "Little Brother" HOWTO videos, and "Dumpster-Diving Philosopher."
- Kevin Kelly: "Asia Grace," and A Thousand True Fans.
- BBtv "Hacker HOWTO": Cold Boot Encryption Attack
- Speed Racer's "photo-anime" hyperreality: John Gaeta interview, part 2.
- Combat robots, warring battleships: Xeni at Maker Faire
- Star Simpson's fuzzy logic, MacGyver, MIT lasers, and trippy glasses: Maker Faire with Phil Torrone
- Joel Johnson Wilderness Internet Experience
- Animation: Syd Garon and DJ Qbert, and Jon Burgerman's "Magic Ink"
- Speed Racer is "poptimistic": interview with John Gaeta, part 1
I guess so, but.
I just found the streaming feature of Netflix a couple of days ago and watched a season's worth of 30 Rock with no problems whatsoever. It was pretty cool, I thought, and didn't cost me anything extra. So I had to use Explorer and agree to some horrible license. DRM; bad. Tina Fey; good.
Now if I can only get around to mailing back that Netflix DVD I have lying around here somewhere...