Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)
by planck01 on Monday February 12, 2018 @05:09PM
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Netflix also works in Firefox on Linux since almost a year or so.
Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)
by joshumax on Monday February 12, 2018 @04:24PM
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It should work with Chromium, IIRC, however you'd need to install the Widevine DRM plugin to make it work. It's available in the non-free section of most-distributions, being closed-source and all...
Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)
by wpietri on Monday February 12, 2018 @04:29PM
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Yeah, I've been happily using Netflix on Linux for years. (As well as on an Android tablet and a Roku box for my projector.) Like many others, I'm entirely happy to pay money for content; my torrenting was about convenience.
I'll still torrent when I buy a movie on DVD, because it's way easier to download than to rip it myself.
Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)
by xur17 on Monday February 12, 2018 @04:50PM
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I've been fairly happy with it on Linux, but it still drives me crazy that despite paying for a 4k plan, the best I can view in my browser is 720p. I'm guessing it's a piracy prevention mechanism, but I'm not sure there's much value in this as it's released in 4k on torrent sites within an hour of the release.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/watch-netflix-natively-linux-e...
Does that include Chromium though? I think probably not. I will give it a try in Chromium but if that doesn't work then I will not be able to use Netflix still.