2012-04-08, 07:17
Amazon was probably told to add DRM as per the contract they have with their providers. They are likely stupidly scared that someone might rip the video and 'steal it' when in real life by stopping people from watching content they were lawfully allowed to, they are just enticing people who can't do the right thing, to fall back on less legal options
Threatening amazon to leave them is unlikely to accomplish much unfortunately, although telling them politely that the change is now making prime unwatchable for you and that other options don't work for you will still give them numbers to work with, but let's be honest, those number will be noise at best.
I'm not sure if Bluecop can work around the new scheme without reverse engineering the new flash applet, or working on a new solution where the flash applet actually plays the video in a full screen window.
In my case though, whether this works is very much going to impact whether I renew my prime membership when the time comes since I did want to use prime to legally watch content on my HTPC.
Threatening amazon to leave them is unlikely to accomplish much unfortunately, although telling them politely that the change is now making prime unwatchable for you and that other options don't work for you will still give them numbers to work with, but let's be honest, those number will be noise at best.
I'm not sure if Bluecop can work around the new scheme without reverse engineering the new flash applet, or working on a new solution where the flash applet actually plays the video in a full screen window.
In my case though, whether this works is very much going to impact whether I renew my prime membership when the time comes since I did want to use prime to legally watch content on my HTPC.