* On 2015 15 Jun 17:22 -0500, JeremyBekka C wrote:

> Thanks James for pointing that out. I actually did not know that hal
> is necessary for Amazon videos because of DRM. I found the solution
> online and it worked but didn't know why. The fact that it deals with
> DRM makes me a little nervous because I have read that we are really
> not legally able to watch DRM videos in Linux. Is that true? I am not
> real familiar with the legal issues regarding DRM and Linux and don't
> want to cause any problems.

In this case it probably means Direct Rendering Manager which, as I
understand it, has to do with kernel support for video. Another case of
an overloaded acronym.

- Nate

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