Paying Netflix funds the companies that have made this bullshit DRM a reality.<p>Just torrent your media and play it in VLC. Works better, without WINE, and without subsidizing these dicks.
My wife's ARM-based Samsung Chromebook now streams Netflix via HTML5 streaming (as of March 11th). I think a much cleaner solution on Linux is imminent - simply spoof enough of the information about your machine to make Netflix think you're also on a Chromebook. Here's one of the announcements: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/11/samsung-chromebook-netflix-html5-streaming/" rel="nofollow">http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/11/samsung-chromebook-netfli...</a>.
The "One of the biggest hurdles to Linux adoption..." paragraph is just not true anymore. Steam for Linux is a good example of how things have changed.<p>It's more like Netflix is one of the few services that many people wish to use where they strangely enough have chosen to ignore Linux.
This is somewhat ridiculous.<p>Netflix is using a lot of open source software: Linux, Cassandra, Zookeeper, Java, etc.<p>And then they sign a sleazy backroom deal with Microsoft and only support silverlight, which is a technology dead on arrival. I don't get it.
I've seen this same "solution" posted 3 times now to HN (forgive me not back-linking). Every one relies on WINE in some form, and every single one is choppy for me despite a lot of customization. I'm not sure where to go with it.