- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 12:05:02 -0800
- To: Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>
- Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, "<public-html@w3.org>" <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> wrote: > On Mar 6, 2012, at 11:16 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> Yes, I made a distinction between on-demand streaming and other kinds >> of streaming that may not allow pausing/scrubbing. >> >> Netflix's time-shifting is still rather limited, though - I can't >> time-shift to "when I'm on the airplane, without wifi", because the >> DRM prevents me. > > No, it's not the DRM that prevents you. It's because it's just not part of the product we offer. We don't offer last weekends new releases either. Just a product decision we made, primarily for non-technical reasons. Your DRM prevents me from using another service on top of you to implement those features. When there's no DRM in play, I don't have to rely on the original provider for every feature I might want. ~TJ
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