Hackers discover how to download streaming movies from Netflix

by nk | August 7, 2007 at 10:29 am
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Earlier this year Netflix announced a new service that would allow you to watch a limited number of videos online instead of waiting for the DVDs to come in the mail.
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The video player is browser based, and the movies are encoded using Windows Media DRM.
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Well, the smart folks over at the Rorta forums seem to have cracked the code, using Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player 11, FairUse4WM, and Notepad.
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Keep in mind, this hack will not let you download more than 17 hours of
video per month, so it's not exactly going to be a great trick for
starting your online video piracy empire.
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