Re: Encrypted Media proposal

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

Received on Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:05:53 UTC