[SGVLUG] No Netflix for Linux

[John Kreznar]

In a posting purporting to be from Christopher Smith <cbsmith at gmail.com>
but lacking a digital signature, it is written:

> The bigger problem is that DRM is just hard to make work with a
> hackable system, so even if you *could* implement something, you'd
> undoubtedly have to put restrictions in place that would essentially
> rob the platform of its open source nature.

Fascinating.  I'd like to know more about this, but probably neither of
us has the time right now for more detail, unless you have a URL handy.

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