[aklug] Re: Netflix and Instant play

I spent a weekend trying to get this to work natively in Linux as
well, but ultimately failed. The problem is that the moonlight project
doesn't yet support the newer DRM scheme implemented in silverlight 2.
So you can trick the Netflix player into letting you try streaming the
movie with the moonlight plugin (by spoofing your useragent), but it
will never actually load the content.

See this from the moonlight docs:

"""
Digital Rights Management

Silverlight 2 supports Microsoft PlayReady Digital Rights Management
(DRM). This is the DRM solution being used by Netflix's =E2=80=9CWatch
Instantly=E2=80=9D service for streaming movies to PC (Windows-only) and Ma=
c
computers.

Status: unsupported
http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight/SecurityStatus
"""

m.

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Robert Crowe <crowe.robert@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
> I finally signed up with an ISP t that has enough bandwidth to support th=
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> Netflix Instant on-than roadblock. Netflix only supports Windows or Mac. =
I
> googled this and found
> this.<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=3D1442273&highlight=3Dnetf=
lix&page=3D2>Lately
> I've been using AntiX 8.5 with smxi (dwelling in the realm of the
> unstable...yahoo) and I tried to masquerade Opera and Iceweasel as IE.
> Installed moonlight and still no joy. Anyone have any better luck?
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