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>There are going to be people that blame Netflix for this, but it's really not their fault.

There are going to be people that continue to excuse netflix and believe it is all pressure from content providers.

News Flash for people that believe that, Netflix is a content provider now. They fully support DRM for their content, they are not being "pressured" by content providers to do this. They support anti-consumer policies like DRM, and are just like the MPAA in this regards

Stop allowing Netflix to hide behind their PR machine and blame 3rd parties for polices they fully support and endorse

No I do not believe for 1 second Neflix is being pressured by anyone to enact these draconian drm polices nor where they forced to support EME in HTML5.

Netflix is just another anti-consumer, anti-freedom corporation.



I agree with everything but:

> They are not being pressured

I'm sure they are; but they are becoming aggressive and they are no longer a cool upstart company battling against a big media monopoly that everyone hated. They are that monopoly now


This - Netflix lobbied for Web DRM, they apply it to their content as well and they even disable downloading for a lot of their shows.

They're behaving EXACTLY like all other DRM obsessed content providers.


Here's another news flash - Netflix without content ceases to become worth their subscription fee. What did you really expect Netflix to do? Ignore the demands of their content providers and then have the content taken away?


Keep defending netflix if you want, they are not innocent victims of content provider threats, they are content providers.

MPAA did not come in strong arm Netflix, Netflix is a willing and eager participant in the development and spread of DRM


There's no need to defend Netflix as they're simply doing what they need to contractually do to stay in business. Did you really think Netflix was going to defy the demands of their content providers? Content is king and if Netflix didn't have it they wouldn't be worth subscribing to.


Again, Netflix is actively pushing DRM on content they themselves produce (no "content provider" pressure there).




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