On 4/14/07, brk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If I had to guess, Netflix probably doesn't really care all that much about
it ...

 "Netflix" is is a corporation, and as such, is incapable of having
"caring" or "not caring".  :)  Now, working for Netflix are doubtless
people who care, as well as people who don't.  If the concerns reach
the right people who do care, something may change.

... they have to make an attempt to enforce some sort of content protection
if they want to be able to deliver movies in this manner.

 Sure.  But there's no reason Firefox *on Windows* shouldn't be able
to work.  Windows Media Slayer is still available, and works
more-or-less the same way it does with Internet Exploiter.  It might
be little more than changing some JavaScript to recognize Firefox as
well as MSIE.

 Firefox on Linux, well, that's a different story.  Since WMP isn't
available for Linux, they would likely have to implement a whole new
distribution infrastructure.  There would need to be a lot of
potential income at stake to justify that kind of expenditure.  I
doubt there's enough of a demand for that (at this point, anyway).

-- Ben
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