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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by yakubin on Monday September 18, 2017 @08:59PM (#15281022)
Netflix allows you to download videos. I've watched several episodes of Star Trek on a train this way.
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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by driverdan on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @09:17AM (#15284309)
Not on desktop. I hate watching movies and TV on a small phone screen.
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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by Mindwipe on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @02:09PM (#15287214)
Windows 10 desktops can download content through the app.
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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by chenster on Monday September 18, 2017 @09:27PM (#15281122)
You can even download Netflix to your phone and watch it later.
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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by admax88q on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @12:39AM (#15281830)
And then it casually and silently deletes them after some unspecified time. Which has screwed me before on a long flights.

Now I always pirate media in advance I intend to watch in the air. I don't want to have to babysit my netflix downloads to make sure that they really are downloaded.

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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by always_good on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @03:43PM (#15288129)
Wow, really? Yeah, that's a bit enraging. Idiosyncrasies like this should at least be exposed in the UI. An expiration countdown in this case.
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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by always_good on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @03:01PM (#15287777)
Not all shows support that, though.
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