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Why do you want to use wine to play Netflix videos on Linux. It works fine in the browser

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Chrome on Windows supports different Widevine levels than Chrome on Linux does.

The higher levels all require keys baked into the GPU/other hardware support.

Doubt an emulator will help.

Yeah at that point just pirate things. Much easier and I don't think even the most moral person could argue against pirating something you can legally access anyway.

> I don't think even the most moral person could argue against pirating something you can legally access anyway.

you'll be surprised

The money flows differently if you pirate it...

If you have a prime account and watch the show, then the shows actors/creators will get paid some cents from your prime membership fee.

Whereas if you have a prime subscription and pirate it, they won't.

Thats a content creator issue if they lose income due to DRM. Not our problem.

That's a you issue if a show you like gets canceled from lack of profitability due to pirating. It is your problem.

Open discussions like this should give them a hint what to do. Supporting DRM is just less ethical than pirating.

I honestly don’t care enough about TV.

Sounds like a job for a bot that follows your Plex / Jellyfin history and clicks play on the original streaming service. You get to avoid whatever terrible UI the media conglomerate shackled their content to, get a persistent copy that works offline, and the creators still get paid. Everybody wins :)

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