[SOLVED] What does Firefox Need to Watch Movies online
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You are really expect help in the official Slackware forum, for watching pirated movies on-line?
I'm trying to watch movies.
You're saying it's a pirated site? I had no idea. It's what came up in my Google Search. I see now that it was actually an ad that I clicked on. I have been to several sites and all seem to have one problem or another.
Maybe you can help me get what I need to play movies and point me to some websites that have movies that are legal.
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Pirate Bay Founder: Streaming Model Could Ignite New Piracy War
As streaming services such as Netflix and Spotify gain even greater traction, so does the centralization of online content that consumers no longer own. According to Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde this business model holds subscribers to ransom, with the threat of content being suddenly taken away now a constant threat.
“I stopped using Spotify when suddenly overnight several titles disappeared from my playlist because the licenses for them were revoked. Someone else had decided which music I could listen to and which I could not. I had no backup, so I lost the music. I do not want that,” Sunde says.
bottom line....don't muck with the US film industry
I don't have NF, I was looking for some free movies though. I wasn't looking for pirated movies as someone suggested.
I usually find free older movies and sometimes newer ones on YouTube, DailyMotion etc...
It is futile since mozilla WONTFIX the vdpau hardware acceleration which eliminates overhead, but instead implements a power-hungry EME sandbox to decode streams on your CPU and introduce even more overhead.
Technical incompetence isn't a factor, it's IMO a pure political decision with a hint of netflix lobby, and those guys just want to be ISP on top of ISP and make you pay twice for the same service.
My advice would be to watch what is available and use the right tool for the job, deciding what should or shouldn't be available isn't really your concern as long as there is DMCA for these things.
Depends on the country you live in but normally the streams are banned upstream, and it's usually the distributor problem and not the consumer.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Originally Posted by aus9
...into preferences on FF -> content -> click the DRM box....
Since Firefox version 52 you have been able to stream video, at least Netflix, by doing the above. Nothing else is necessary. You may have to re-start Firefox after making the change.
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