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Right, thats the whole thing that sucks about DRM and these video providers in general. Not only do they want to protect their content from unauthorized viewers, they want to control how it is consumed. Which to me is especially outrageous because netflix and youtube are the only two with a good user experience. (I used to count Hulu, but at some point they really fell off)

I would think that Amazon would lead the charge for an open standard for distributing video which handles DRM, subscription, pay per view, etc. and then all the non-Netflixes would publish to that standard, and let player applications thrive. Even when using a Roku it feels like each app is completely different. And most of them suck. Imagine if in 1985 Prism, HBO, and Showtime all manufactured their own TVs and required you to use them, but they all had wildly different layouts and remotes.

The idea of syncing up two video streams is awesome, I can see people enjoying that, and it would encourage people to pay for whatever services their friends have. Though it does sound a bit similar to rabb.it

The world doesn't rotate around netflix and co. You do not need to consume them if you don't want to. There is also no right from yourside to how you wish you like to consume it.

I would prefer to have NO DRM of course don't get me wrong. But still in this case, it is not your decision and apparently most people really don't care for that at all. They wanna see netflix in there browser. Thats why google and co did it. Thats why no one cares that there might be a electorn based browser somewhere which is unable to implement its core feature of sync viewing.

And while i like the idea, just because is just not good enough. Noone will cancel there netflix subscription over this.

I wanted to be sure that there were multiple instance of this in your posting history (there are) before I commented, but you regularly use "there" in place of possessive "their".

I would want someone to correct me on a fundamental grammar mistake in Spanish, so I felt it would be useful to correct you here.

Thank you for the effort on checking my previous comments as well :-).

Really appreciate it as a non native english writer! :)

I sometimes think it would be nice to have a community correct feature which allows anyone to make simple corrections in a way you, as the author, also become aware of it.

The entire idea behind DRM is to gain control over the user experience of legitimate users. Pirates will always break whatever DRM scheme you use. Wasting energy on them will always be futile. Controlling the user experience? That's where you can make a lot of money by pushing out competitors.

I think this is an incomplete picture. Guessing at their motivations, DRM also serves to reduce opportunities for casual copyright violation when you have to jump through illegal (which is part of the scheme) hoops to circumvent it.

But by and large people don't make mix tapes, or bootleg videos anymore. They torrent it from the one person with the time to break the DRM. They would likely still do this even if the content was DRM free since its easier.

exactly, but my point is that most of the players don't have a good product, so why would they force people to use it? In the last few months I've used Prime Video, Crackle, FXNOW, WWE Network, NJPWWorld, and HonorClub. All of them are awwwwful, and it would only benefit them if they could come up with an api standard for content, and let other vendors take care of the front end.

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