The great thing about Silverlight is its ability to stream content as your internet line can take it. This means Silverlight will dynamically adjust the video and audio bitrate so that even users on less-than-fast lines can stream Silverlight video content.
That is a clear advantage over Flash and/or HTML5 based video content. Another is the easy integration with other projects when using visual studio. It enables you to rapidly develop new software and code.
The great thing about HTML5 is that it runs on many devices unlike Silverlight. With HTML5, there is a chance that I can actually stream content on my tablet, *BSD or Linux computer, Windows, Mac, iPhone, or consoles in my home. Netflix managed to get Wii, PS3, iPhone, iPad, etc. to stream their content so obviously they can already do it without silverlight. With both flash and silverlight dying, netflix has to find a solution to this problem.
You can't. But there's no way to do it in Windows or Mac, either. There's also nothing you can do to prevent me from running netcat on another box on the network and capturing the stream in its entirety for brute force decryption at a later date.
You can, however, make it enough of a pain in the ass that most people won't bother.
If this means I have to have a Google Chrome installation on my laptop, then great. It means I don't have to run mono + silverlight + wine + whatever else to watch Netflix.
I believe Windows has some sort of DRM protected content path mumbo jumbo. Not sure how the heck it protects itself from a fake video driver, but I am sure they have something.
You can force Win7 to load an unsigned driver; but(at least if things are working as designed) an unsigned driver with access to anything in the 'Protected Media Path' will, indeed, cause the system to report that the PMP is compromised if anything asks. Most software doesn't care, Blu-ray playback is probably the exception.
I don't know if it has come to this; but some additional cat-and-mousing could also be done by the playback client. Some game and program DRM systems used to have the 'feature' of preven
Let's put it this way: The late Mr. Jobs, not himself exactly a Stallmanesque exemplar of the principles of software freedom, described the measures needed to get Blu-Ray support as 'a bag of hurt' for a reason(that probably wasn't even entirely about selling more movies on iTunes)...
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Silverlight greatness (Score:3, Funny)
That is a clear advantage over Flash and/or HTML5 based video content. Another is the easy integration with other projects when using visual studio. It enables you to rapidly develop new software and code.
This being said, the DRM probably isn't as nee
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The great thing about HTML5 is that it runs on many devices unlike Silverlight. With HTML5, there is a chance that I can actually stream content on my tablet, *BSD or Linux computer, Windows, Mac, iPhone, or consoles in my home. Netflix managed to get Wii, PS3, iPhone, iPad, etc. to stream their content so obviously they can already do it without silverlight. With both flash and silverlight dying, netflix has to find a solution to this problem.
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But how do you implement DRM in a web browser in *BSD or Linux in such a way that I can't capture the decrypted video to disk?
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You can't. But there's no way to do it in Windows or Mac, either. There's also nothing you can do to prevent me from running netcat on another box on the network and capturing the stream in its entirety for brute force decryption at a later date.
You can, however, make it enough of a pain in the ass that most people won't bother.
If this means I have to have a Google Chrome installation on my laptop, then great. It means I don't have to run mono + silverlight + wine + whatever else to watch Netflix.
Re:Silverlight greatness (Score:2)
I believe Windows has some sort of DRM protected content path mumbo jumbo. Not sure how the heck it protects itself from a fake video driver, but I am sure they have something.
Winqual (Score:2)
Not sure how the heck it protects itself from a fake video driver
That probably has something to do with the "Winqual" process.
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How does that protect against loading an unsigned driver? Or does the protected path stuff shutdown in that event?
I have seen some malware on Windows 7 that used a driver, so there must be someway to get non-approved drivers into the OS.
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You can force Win7 to load an unsigned driver; but(at least if things are working as designed) an unsigned driver with access to anything in the 'Protected Media Path' will, indeed, cause the system to report that the PMP is compromised if anything asks. Most software doesn't care, Blu-ray playback is probably the exception.
I don't know if it has come to this; but some additional cat-and-mousing could also be done by the playback client. Some game and program DRM systems used to have the 'feature' of preven
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That seems like an OS I would want to avoid.
Your trying to play a blu-ray, your PC is owned by the MPAA so no go for you.
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Let's put it this way: The late Mr. Jobs, not himself exactly a Stallmanesque exemplar of the principles of software freedom, described the measures needed to get Blu-Ray support as 'a bag of hurt' for a reason(that probably wasn't even entirely about selling more movies on iTunes)...