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[–] 33 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

You have no idea how insane i went trying to figure out why clarkson farm was playing at extremely low quality, pixelated 320p on my PC before I realized Amazon just hated Linux.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (5 children)

    320p? I've seen 540p iirc, which was already terrible. Interestingly, a Windows VM made higher resolutions available, but I didn't want to watch a (tearing) slide show either.

    At least I don't have to come up with a reason to justify piracy.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    Its been some time since i last had prime.

    but got the free trial today doing some christmas orders.

    Now it just flat out refuses to let me watch video. Demands I enable Widevine content decryption module in my browser, which I don't have.. and isnt available on firefox (at least on linux) according to the mozilla add-on page/search.

    edit

    had to enable drm in the preferences for the option to even show up, aaaaand with it enabled and widevine installed, its still a blurry low resolution mess. Fucking amazin.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Yes, sadly, DRM is necessary to use many streaming services, be it Spotify, Crunchyroll, or Netflix.

    At least Widevine works on Linux. Without Widevine copyright holders would probably demand some Windows-/macOS-only DRM that'd be probably even worse.

    Edit: Just remembering Flash gives me shudders.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Widevine doesnt seem to work very well if i'm watching 4 pixels instead of 4k, lol.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well, my point was more about Spotify and other sites which only require basic DRM.

    But yeah, I also consider the quality inacceptable. It's why I bought storage for my server to start sailing the high seas with automatic downloads.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I swear to god I'm about to start doing it to.

    Im a fucking customer, that is paying, or has paid, and still wont let me watch the shit.. So whats the point of giving my money?

    had a lot of people offer to give me charts to the new seas, as mine are 20 years old at this point, and i am so dangerously close to finally accepting an offer.

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