Netflix Releases "Download & Go" App for Offline Binging. DRM?
 

Anyone use this app and see how they tag your videos to identify you if you upload? Just curious

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https://www.wired.com/2016/11/netflix-offline-viewing/

ATTENTION ALL NETFLIX users: you can now download shows and movies for offline viewing. This is not a drill. Want to binge Stranger Things or Orange Is the New Black, on an airplane or on the road heading home for the holidays? Go wild. Want to watch The Imitation Game on a two-hour subway ride? Knock yourself out.

To get offline downloads, just update your iOS, Android, or Amazon FireOS app. Once you get the updated app, you can select ?Available for Download? from the Netflix menu from your mobile device to see the entire collection of downloadable content. It?s sorted into the types of categories you?re used to, based on other content you?ve watched in the past. If you?re browsing Netflix the normal way, you can identify offline-friendly content by a new downward-arrow icon.

The reason this has taken so long? Allowing downloads means securing a whole new set of rights from the people who made those TV shows and movies. That?s one reason Netflix has invested so heavily in creating original content; if it owns the rights to a show, it can distribute it anywhere in the world, and give users whatever viewing options it pleases. Netflix released roughly 600 hours of original content in 2016 alone; that?s 25 continuous days of viewing, and a strong foundation for its downloadable library.

Fortunately, Netflix has also gone way beyond its own in-house content for this new feature. Good Will Hunting, Mad Men, and Parks and Recreation are just a few examples of high-quality options. ?Netflix is working with lots of partners globally to get downloading rights for the bulk of the content on our service,? Marlee Tart, a Netflix spokeswoman, wrote in an email to WIRED. ?This is an ongoing effort as we know consumers want this capability and we are working to provide it.?

I work from home and I usually watch Netflix while I work - sometimes only for background noise. For plane trips I usually buy a movie or two from Microsoft through Windows 10. Now.... I can just use Netflix.

I remember twenty years ago we all carried CDs in our cars in huge cases. Some of us had huge CD players in the trunk that had cassettes full of CDs. Now... Every ten year old has an iPhone with unlimited streaming music. Technology has changed so much.

I do exactly the same, for background noise.

My how times have changed!

You have to wonder though, all those digital movies we buy, all it takes is a hack, and all records of $24.95 - $39.95 digital lifetime ownership is gone, have to buy again. What a racket.

Has anyone started using this ?

I've downloaded a few episodes of The Office and tried it out offline. It works pretty good.

It must be DRM
I get that option on Android
I don't get that download option on LINUX w Chrome

i`m already trying it ! :o