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by wmf 5690 days ago
But why is Android any worse than, say, Windows XP in this respect?
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The encryption/decryption libraries exist on Windows. For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_DRM
I think that Netflix also doesn't want to be in the business of building the full secured/DRM code stack on all these platforms themselves. They'd rather leverage. And for whatever reasons I believe they are/were a Microsoft video encoding shop on the backend, which can limit their choices (e.g. they won't use Adobe Access on Flash, which is not universal either).