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Gamester17
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No existing plugins circumvented real DRM, I think you are thinking about iPlayer and Veoh which only workaround formating or proxy quirks.
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After posting I was researching more and did come across something that explained out the real code wasn't being opened up and how it wasn't really going to work. Too bad. I don't know what kind of DRM is in place either, I just figured it would authenticate against your Netflix account and if you are valid it would stream the content.
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@chuckctv: I don't know why you put that in the netflix thread, but what you're talking about would likely be hard to code (at least compared to our current scripts/plugins) and would also be very illegal... it would put the blame directly on xbmc since there wouldn't really be any (or very little) legit function to having our own p2p network. How do you decide who 'those involved' are? How do you decide who has high enough bandwidth? Am I to be excluded just because I'm not willing/can't afford to pay $100 a month for even 3mb up (that's what it is in my area).
I think probably a lot of xbmc users (especially those of us in the states with relatively crappy ISPs) would fall into this area of using and even contributing to xbmc but suddenly excluded from your elite club of movie sharers with fast internet.
Or heck, maybe it's an awesome idea and I'm just way off base.
If you want to share your movies, I encourage you to upload them to veoh or one of the other video sharing sites and submit links to the likes of ninja video, quicksilverscreen, etc.
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The API is for retreiving movie and tv show information as well as the user's queue and allowing you to rate things without visiting the site. I really doubt they're going to allow you to stream media with no DRM in it... right?
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Indeed - there seems to be a scarcity of real information at this point.
Having another API to hit for scraping movie/show information will be valuable though.
As, ofcourse, would being able to make recommendations of other films (tying in trailers and so on perhaps).
Cheers,
Jonathan
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Perhaps one of the sites we use to scrape ie meligrove/themoviedb.org could use it to scrape info and populate their site, which we can then in turn scrape from them. For example travis could scrape 5000 movies a day for related movies and suggestions. Soon the whole database would be done and then it would just be a matter of adding info to the movies created each day. It would be great if xbmc could scrape the info directly but they would EASILY exceed 5000 hits per day. I might make this suggestion at meligrove.
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Yeah, I'm looking through the documentation as well, and it looks like it's just for scraping. It's unfortunate, but I'm sure there's licensing issues when it comes to streaming.