Google Is Blocking YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV

Re:Google Is Blocking YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV by b4lancesh33t on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @07:56AM (#15860711)

Not true. Amazon punishes me every time I want to cast Amazon video to my Chromecast. I think the two situations are quite analogous.

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Re:Google Is Blocking YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV by glenneroo on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @08:11AM (#15860799)

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).

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Re:Google Is Blocking YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV by Spivak on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @12:35PM (#15862989)

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.

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Re:Google Is Blocking YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV by ygra on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @11:30AM (#15862367)

Is that Amazon Prime Video punishing you or the wishes of content copyright holders?

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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.

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Re:Google Is Blocking YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV by oneweekwonder on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @10:07AM (#15861537)

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".

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