Netflix announced that its silverlight plugin that allows Mac users to use the Netflix Instant Watch feature is available today, as in like.. right now. If you go to netflix from a mac, and click on “Watch now!” on any instant play title, it forwards you to a page where you can download the silverlight plugin.

However… I think I am going to wait a week and see how this one shakes out first. The early reviews from beta testers of the Silverlight plug-in were not at all positive and one guy complained that he actually had to reboot his mac. Given than I haven’t had to reboot my mac once in the last week or shut it down, I find there to be something inherently wrong with that idea… so I’ll wait.

What about the rest of you mac users out there?

Are you brave enough?… [Read More]

Netflix Silverlight Plugin for Mac is in the Wild.

This is interesting. Defective by Design is hosting 35 days against DRM, during which they will pick a product that everyone should boycott in order to speak their mind about how much they think DRM sucks.

Their first product, sadly enough, is the new Macbook.

Why am I not surprised that they’ve targeted Apple?

It seems like Apple is a fair target for anyone these days. The Apple hatred has almost gotten as bad as the Windoze hatred that was so popular a few years ago, before Steve Jobs came back to Apple and made Apple cool again. Sometimes, I think that geeks really do just want to be different and they don’t care what they have to do to accomplish that.

I understand that Apple has pandered to the DRM gods, but they had to do this in order to be successful. No one else was even willing to consider negotiating with them, the fact that Apple had the foresight to go there and say, “Hey, we have the most popular MP3 player on the planet.… [Read More]

35 Days Against DRM