[mythtv-users] Netflix coming to MythTV native - no more wine/windows?

[Tom Dexter]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 4:04 PM, John Morris <jmorris at beau.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 21:12 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>> Call it whatever you want, but its name makes absolutely no difference.
>> The approach is explicitly prohibited by the ToU.  All you have to do is
>> read those terms, which you can do at:  https://www.netflix.com/TermsOfUse
>>
>> Since you obviously haven't read it, yet, let me quote one part of it:
>>
>> ----
>> 6. Netflix Service
>  [legal blah blah deleted]
>
> You are of course free to do what ya want.  As for me, if Netflix were
> well supported in Myth, through an official API or through a workaround
> I'd be inclined to subscribe.  If they later declined my payment on the
> grounds they detected a scraper at work I'd simply stop using them and
> continue the perfectly happy Netflix free existence I have now.  That is
> the only sane way to deal with idiocy like EULAs as far as I'm
> concerned.
>
> Using the lame interfaces on set top boxes ain't no way to live, which
> is why I'm not a Netflix subscriber now.
>

For me, using my hard earned money to support anti-consumer DRM
practices is no way to live, which is why I'll never be a subscriber
;)...but I digress...

Tom