Re:Google Is Blocking YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV
by b4lancesh33t on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @07:56AM
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Not true. Amazon punishes me every time I want to cast Amazon video to my Chromecast. I think the two situations are quite analogous.
Re:Google Is Blocking YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV
by glenneroo on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @08:11AM
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And Amazon Prime Video punishes me for trying to play video on a device via VGA cable, which they say is not HDCP compatible, therefore they limit it to 480p (when the projector supports HD/1080p).
Re:Google Is Blocking YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV
by Spivak on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @12:35PM
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If this really annoys you, and it would annoy me, you can buy an HDMI splitter that strips HDCP. They run from between $5-$40 depending on whether you trust some no-name brand.
Re:Google Is Blocking YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV
by ygra on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @11:30AM
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Is that Amazon Prime Video punishing you or the wishes of content copyright holders?
Re:Google Is Blocking YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV
by glenneroo on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @05:33PM
(#15865703)
I suppose both. But Netflix works fine.
Re:Google Is Blocking YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV
by oneweekwonder on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @10:07AM
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and the rest of the world just source their content via explicit means. Because they find their time more valuable then a "legal grey area"/"moral high ground"/"doing what is right".
Amazon punishes Google directly as a company: users wanting Google product only have to change the URL in their browser.
Google in return punishes customer having already bought their Amazon device. If the customer uses a Fire stick for intance, the only alternative to have youtube on the tv is to buy another dongle.
The level of fucking with the end customer is disproportionate.