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Originally Posted by riverc0il  I am sure the current software available for Linux and Mac could work with Netflix. They are choosing a standard and excluding a large amount of customers by force requiring MSIE6.0+ and WMP 11+. Quite frankly, that sucks and the sooner the world wakes up to just how many people are ditching MS products, the better. In a competitive market place, we can only hope another company comes along and challenges Netflix for online viewing of videos. I would think Apple would be in the best position to do so seeing how well iTunes has done. |
I don't use Netflix, so I am not familiar with it specifically, but you can download codecs to use with mplayer/xine/your player of choice with Linux and play Windows media files, including some with at least some sort of digital restriction management.
That said, most content providers just aren't going to support Linux (well, at least with free/open-source software). Years late, recording companies are finally realizing the DRM is bad for consumers and the industry, and they are finally releasing DRM-free music. The MPAA and TV studios haven't grappled with reality yet. Until they do, they can't provide the type of software most Linux users want. Linux users have to do it themselves.