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Re:Netflix Employees Are Happier with Their Job Than Faceboo... by will_hughes on Thursday November 02, 2017 @12:13AM (#15607782)
Someone who's going to pirate can readily get all of that content from various sources already.

I highly doubt that anyone has been persuaded to buy a Netflix subscription because of Netflix's use of DRM.

As for 'shady' -- well, not a word I'd necessarily use, but there's plenty of examples where DRM has blocked access to legitimately purchased content.

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Re:Netflix Employees Are Happier with Their Job Than Faceboo... by kerbalspacepro on Thursday November 02, 2017 @02:15PM (#15612810)
Netflix isn't using DRM for the customers, its using DRM for the content providers. It isn't there job to fix the rest of the Internet
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Re:Netflix Employees Are Happier with Their Job Than Faceboo... by shmerl on Thursday November 02, 2017 @10:08PM (#15616188)
> Netflix isn't using DRM for the customers, its using DRM for the content providers.

That doesn't for their own video. Whom are they using it for in that case?

> It isn't there job to fix the rest of the Internet

Apparently it's their job to break it though, by pushing this garbage into he standard.

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