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I recently installed Fedora 14 on my home PC so I have a dual boot system running windows and linux. I probably would primarily use Linux on that machine as its older and Linux manages its resources MUCH better than Windows does, BUT I'm a bit of a Netflix junky and from what I've read there isn't currently a solution that allows for Netflix to work on Linux. Evidently Moonlight (which as I understand is supposed to be like silverlight) is missing a key piece of functionality. So is there really no solution?

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Hmm... I'm starting to think there might not be a solution... :/ – Kenneth Mar 12 '11 at 9:03
In general any service employing DRM won't work on Linux. – Let_Me_Be Mar 12 '11 at 11:03
Is there a reason for this? Perhaps a solution pending? – Kenneth Mar 12 '11 at 16:51
There are several different reasons. Licensing (GPL directly forbids most types of DRM), patenting (alternative implementations can't be created), NDA (even if the DRM technology isn't patented and there aren't licensing issues, you will have to sign an NDA which is of course incompatible with creating an open source implementation). – Let_Me_Be Mar 12 '11 at 17:13
So most likely there will never by a way to make it work then... :( And I'm guessing the only work around would be to use Wine or something like that... but then that defeats one of the big purposes of being on Linux. Oh well... dual boot it is! lol – Kenneth Mar 12 '11 at 18:18
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From what I understand, the only way you can reliably watch netflix is through a virtual machine running Windows. At this point, playing natively in Linux is not supported.

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The answers to your questions are here: http://www.iheartubuntu.com/2012/11/netflix-on-ubuntu-is-here.html By adding a ppa you can get a special blend of wine and firefox that will run the netflix videoplayer (silverlight). It's 3 commands and although I personally have had some trouble on the 64-bit kernel it works well on a 32-kernel. If you have further questions or you get it running on a 64-bit kernel let me know.

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