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Re:Hacking Team’s Leak Helped Researchers Hunt Down a Zero-Day by evan_ on Sunday January 17, 2016 @11:58AM (#10920021)
Netflix used Silverlight for their streaming product in browsers for years, because it offered DRM they couldn't get from other streaming solutions.

It was certainly the only reason I ever installed Silverlight, and I suspect I was not alone.

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Re:Hacking Team’s Leak Helped Researchers Hunt Down a Zero-Day by fencepost on Sunday January 17, 2016 @12:04PM (#10920042)
Interesting, and I never noticed because A) I don't have a Netflix subscription and have intentionally avoided installing Silverlight (and Flash, except within Chrome) and B) the PCs I deal with on a daily basis don't have any business need for it so Silverlight's never been installed on them either for the most part.
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