On Sunday 15 March 2009 19:28:38 Patrick DeBoard wrote: > Ted Smith wrote: > > What exactly do you want help with? I doubt anyone on this list will > > give you a copy of a non-free operating system. > > > > The movie is probably available somewhere on BitTorrent; while > > retrieving it in that way might violate copyright law in your locality, > > it is a way to get the movie and watch it using only free software. > > > > On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 18:07 -0400, Patrick DeBoard wrote: > >> it seems i HAVE to have windows if i want to do the Watch Instantly > >> thing with Netflix. > >> > >> Well, does anyone have a legitimate copy of windows they're not using? > >> ha! > >> > >> i've emailed microsoft and told them someone gave me this computer > >> (true), that it didn't come with a CD restore disk, and could they mail > >> me a replacement, please. That was yesterday, saturday, so i probably > >> won't hear anything until tomorrow monday. i'm so smart. that was a > >> good movie, erasing windows entirely. crap like that comes back to bite. > >> > >> help! > >> > > i want a way to watch netflix movies online. i have a two-week free > trial that ends in 4 days, and i haven't been able to download them. i > called Netflix, the guy said it took Mac 9 years 11 months to be able > to access the movies online, which just now happened. the guy said > access for gnu/Linux machines would never happen if it took apple > nearly ten years to get concessions from Microsoft. he said they've got > a LOT of new customers. > > i did use ice and user agent swith to impersonate ie, but i got the > message that i needed to enable activex. it seems my only option is to > get a windows or mac os and put it on my other partition. do you agree?
I definitely not agree. The best option would be __not__ to use Netflix and instead use a service that doesn't force you to use nonfree software. -- KDE Argentina http://www.kde.org.ar -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html email /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
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