[SGVLUG] End of Amazon Streaming for Linux

[Braddock]

Buried in a rambling article at slashdot is news of the apparent end of 
Amazon Prime streaming for Linux.  They have turned on hard DRM.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/04/23/1615219/the-dark-side-of-amazons-new-pilots

My wife and I both use(d) Amazon Prime under Linux.  It does not work 
now - I get an "Updating Player" message followed by an error. Not sure 
it is DRM, or the outdated abandoned Linux Flash version.

According to the article all Android support (except for Kindle Fire) is 
also now dead.

Very sad news.  Hopefully we will have some legal way to watch content 
in the future, but it looks bleak for anything without a locked 
bootloader (even Google Chromebooks refuse to play Netflix if you unlock 
them).

-braddock