It's Now Possible To Play Netflix Natively On Linux Without Wine Plug-Ins
Found on Phoronix on Saturday, 09 August 2014
Thanks to DRM support with HTML5 and Google's Chrome developers moving quick to implement the support that's backed by Netflix, you can today run Chrome and play Netflix videos.
It's not as easy though right now just firing up Chrome 38 Beta on Linux to play Netflix, but you first need to switch the reported HTTP user-agent string.
Closed source DRM that won't make it into Chromium, plus working around a useragent block. With pointless roadblocks like that people will keep on supporting torrents. Stopping someone from accessing your website based on the useragent just makes you look like an idiot.