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Re:Netflix to lose Starz, its most valuable source of new mo... by cookiecaper on Thursday September 01, 2011 @08:10PM (#2952348)
Can't happen legally until copyright law is modified. The media companies are deeply involved in shenanigans like this, used as mechanisms to attempt to restrain consumers within the bonds of "traditional" formats like CDs and cable.

If you want to set up Boxee to plug in to your favorite trackers, you can have this right now, but no one can offer it out of the box because the content owners don't want them to do it, and our law allows the content owner to dictate that.

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Re:Netflix to lose Starz, its most valuable source of new mo... by w1ntermute on Friday September 02, 2011 @01:51AM (#2953077)
> Can't happen legally until copyright law is modified.

Then someone had better make an illegal application that does all this in a very attractive & easy-to-use way, because that seems to be the only way to get the companies off their asses and in action.

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Re:Netflix to lose Starz, its most valuable source of new mo... by cookiecaper on Friday September 02, 2011 @08:15AM (#2953809)
As I noted, there are plugins that make this very smooth from XBMC/Boxee. The chilling effects of copyright litigation prevent any real polish going into an out-of-the-box product, at least in America. Maybe another group of Swedes with the fortitude of The Pirate Bay's founders will crop up some time and take this on.
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