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Re: Linux users can watch ITV content online too ... without Moonlight

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____/ Attila on Monday 10 August 2009 14:41 : \____

> Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> 
>> Homer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> http://chris.orr.me.uk/caughtup/
>>> 
>>> No DRM, no Silverlight/Moonlight, no Mono, no Windows.
>>> 
>>> I just tried it, and it works.
>> 
>> They've finally dumped all that silverlight bullshit?
>> About time.
>> 
> It never worked even with the Moonlight 1.0.1 plugin installed. If I go to
> this page:
> http://www.itv.com/ITVPlayer/Video/default.html?ViewType=5&Filter=46431
> I get a little box saying "Install Microsoft(c) Silverlight" I click on the
> box and it takes me here:
> http://go-mono.com/moonlight/
> This page says, "Congratulations, you're running the current release of
> moonlight!" I already knew that you morons!
> 
> fsck moonlight! fsck silverlight! fsck itv! I probably couldn't have watched
> anything anyway since I'm not located in the UK. There wasn't anything I
> wanted to watch but IT'S THE FSCKing principle of the thing. This makes me
> very grumpy. :( :( :(

Just do what I do and dump television altogether. :-) The good interactive
stuff is on the Net anyway.

- -- 
                ~~ Best of wishes


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