[ale] Riddle me this

[Adrya Stembridge]

> No. It doesn't - or it didn't two weeks ago.

I watched an episode of Sons of Anarchy on Amazon Prime last night.   Linux
Mint 13.


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:30 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

> On 07/15/2013 12:57 PM, Adrya Stembridge wrote:
> >
> > FYI, Amazon Prime also plays on Linux.
>
> No. It doesn't - or it didn't two weeks ago. Amazon changed their DRM
> sometime
> in April. Since then it doesn't work on stock Linux systems.
>
> There is a thread of Prime members complaining - actually about 20 threads.
> Seems that Prime was very popular with the XBMC crowd (including me).  A
> B-i-L
> got all his Prime video content purchases refunded when they changed the
> DRM
> method.  He dumped the XBMC box and bought 2 AppleTVs. He was tired of
> screwing
> around and not getting end-user-level-support.  The AppleTVs have issues
> too,
> but Amazon Prime works.
>
> Can't say that I blame him.  I got a Roku to access Prime stuff, but
> haven't
> been home to do anything more than break the sign-up/login process and
> open a
> support case with Roku.
>
> If anyone has a reasonable work-around for XBMC to access Amazon Prime,
> I'm all
> ears, will document everything and publish it.  Reasonable does NOT include
> WINE.  It needs to work on fairly low-powered Atom/AMD-E class CPUs.
>
>
> I've told a few people, but suppose it is time to announce it to my
> friends here
> - my 82 yr old Mother died last Sunday after a long illness. It was
> expected
> "any time" and she had been getting worse the last few months. Thankfully,
> she
> didn't linger on and on.
>
> This is why I missed the ALE-NW meeting so Rich and Orlando had to fill in
> last
> minute. Sorry to the folks looking forward to the Linux Desktop Security
> UN-Meeting. We will reschedule.
>
> If my responses have seemed a little more brain dead than usual, you'll
> understand why and give me a little leeway, please.
>
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