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    <title><![CDATA[Discussion on Linux gets a bit of good news on the Netflix front ]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cool]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-346873-3481193]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Not a deal maker for me, I do like all my stuff on a desktop that works.  I'll keep my W7 desktop for now.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[wuboyblue]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 05:11:23 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Uhhh]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Netflix already runs on the Droid, at least it currently runs on the more popular Droid platforms.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 05:08:37 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Not the issue here (Portugal)]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Commercial or copyright reasons are probably the reasons behind not being available in Portugal.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 06:36:08 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Plenty of free tools already exist for streaming...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[... It's just that they have to admit that DRM is fundamentally broken if they don't want to waste time customizing the tools.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[MarkGyver]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:03:11 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nothing like starting your morning with an outdated troll...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[nt]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[RipVan]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 07:55:11 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Not a priority....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I guess that says it all.  Am I happy Netflix is FINALLY recognizing it's customers and developing a service they want?  Sure, sort of.  I know Silverlight had to be a package deal when M$ offered them an exclusive contract to stream to the Xbox.  but, it seemed like they found a work around to stream to the PS3 and Wii pretty quickly.  guess they were motivated.  Bottomline, saying &quot;Well, sometime in the next YEAR we'll have probably had enough free time to ALLOW you to use the service you pay for on the system you want&quot; is just lame.  Luckily, thanks to their recent price hike while blaming their customers &quot;demand&quot; for mailer discs and not streaming (when their streaming service FORCES us to wait for discs by mail due to selection) I am no longer a Netflix customer.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Thumper33]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:04:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Usually with YouTube its because its available from a Canadian Source]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Often when you see this message there is  a note as to how we can view it, if it came from an imbedded clip, then just click on the YouTube symbol and the clip will play. There are some show's clips that will tell you for viewing you must visit Comedy Network or a particular network to view the clip. You can get shows such as the Daily Show, the Colbert Show, or Conan and As for movies there is the biggest farse of all MGM will not sell from its store to Canadians even thought the company is ultimately owned by a Canadian, the same applies to Universal and the fact that Disney has about a third ownership held by Canadians. I don't know why a Candian cares about Netflix when you can get Rogers online, I am sure Shaw has similar and so does Cogeco and Videotron, you can rent current movies online from their services, most networks run streaming services for free. I have checked Netflix out and saw nothing in their services making it worthwhile. A lot of American sources don't like to have their signal come to Canada because they believe our government doesn't protect them from pirates.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:57:49 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Netflix does run on Android]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'm running an app from the Android Marketplace that lets me run Netflix on my HTC Evo.  Depending on the bandwidth available it runs well without stuttering.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Orange Bull]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:15:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The REAL reason why Netflix isn't on Linux]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Netflix doesn't run on Linux because Microsoft won't license the DRM piece. Plain and simple. Netflix won't run on Android devices for the same reason (http://blog.netflix.com/2010/11/netflix-on-android.html).J.Ja]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin James]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:51:48 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Netflix-Linux-and $$$]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It comes down to the $$$. Netflix has other problems to deal with at the moment; ie: sourcing their products mainly. So Linux will rank near the bottom in the priority list. Suppliers are getting greedy again. Eventually, just like cable and fm (in the beginning commercial free) there will be advertising on Netflix. Believe it!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sue West]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:34:05 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[???]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Perhaps you might explain for those who are interested.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:54:23 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Finally!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Yes yes yes yes yes! Thanks for sharing that intelligence info Jack!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[pearlswest@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:09:16 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Don't blame Netflix]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Don't blame Netflix for content restrictions put on by their suppliers. The movie and music companies put restrictions on distribution, and Netflix must follow them or lose the content.Netflix is for-profit, yes, but if the movie moguls don't get their cut, we don't get to see the movie. The movie industry bought-in to the MS DRM scheme, but that's a proprietary system, take it or leave it.And bluntly, $7.95 a month might buy one ticket at the second-run theaters, but probably not at a first-run show. So for unlimited use, of course you're not going to get first-run. That's going to be confined to the pay-per-view space and cost a lot more. TANSTAAFL.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[oldbaritone]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:09:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Not to split hairs...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[but I want it on my HTPC, not my desktop.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[kmarsh@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:17:15 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Netflix on Linux not that big a deal....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Mainly because if I wanted it I could have already had it. I have a Nintendo Wii, I have Windows 7 running on a dual boot, and VM. I'm happy they want to port it to Linux but I doubt it will be much of a deal breaker for the OS. In order to make it viable it needs to be able to do what windows does, in nearly every respect. If people sense any inconvenience they shy away. If they hear any kind &quot;but...&quot; or trade off in your voice they don't want it. Principles don't matter and they don't share the Linux vision. They don't care about proprietary or open source. Perhaps they could be made to care, but currently they don't. We can't look at them through our Linux/ open source glasses, just because we care doesn't mean they will.It reminds me the North American natives, trading their land for shiny rocks and beads. The people will trade their future freedoms for the latest and greatest shiny device and software.At least that is what I've found, yes it's only my opinion, but it's based on experience.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sonicsteve]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:10:38 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[neither here nor there...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Jack: did you confirm Benjamin's source on this? I mean, this is like telling a 2nd hand story, and even if you trust everything Benjamin says, who is to say Benjamin should trust the words of the so-called &quot;two engineers at Netflix&quot; ? unless there's some confirmation or official statement from Netflix, this is at best just rumor.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[bond.masuda@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:09:49 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Already Streaming Netflix on Linux!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I've always ran both Windows and Linux boxes and streaming Netflix on Linux was really easy to setup and is much fast. No Lag!! Where windows occasionally does.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JJC4545]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 07:24:51 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Android is linux and Netflix is available for it]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Since Android is linux and Netflix is available for it I've got to assume that whatever development needs to be done probably isn't overwhelming.I've not tried it but I wonder if you ran Android in the SDK and installed the netflix.apk.. (search for it and you can find it outside the Android Marketplace)... that perhaps Netflix would already run on Linux ?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[bmullan]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 07:22:37 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Other issues]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Main issue with me is I can not stream very reliably any content these days. Broadband at home is crappy. DS3 at work barely works for streaming. All start with latest browser and Flash upgrades, video on several different computers are all choppy. IE, Firefox and Chrome ? so it is just not up to the same expectations as watching the good ol DVD/BR disk.As for open or closed source. Really does not matter, it is a choice, is an app, either want an app to do something specific, company develops app and sells it, so what. As long as installs and works!I do feel that anything related to the OS itself should be open source, like drivers, etc.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mwclarke1@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 07:17:57 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I think he meant &amp;quot;it&amp;quot; as in &amp;quot;desktop linux&amp;quot;]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[meaning the question was:&quot;Will the ability to stream Netflix to the Linux desktop help to make  and it's still a yes, because the average person doesn't care if they're using windows or linux, they just want to be able to download and install software to access the services they pay for. If most people want to use netflix, then the platform can only benefit by having netflix on it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[shryko]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:43:38 -0700</pubDate>
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