"Netflix didn't use Silverlight because it had extremely good DRM, but because nobody used it nobody had taken the time to reverse engineer it so getting the raw video files out of Netflix would be harder."
Not sure where you're getting those facts from, but Netflix does use DRM extensions in Silverlight as was pushed into using Silverlight because the copyright holders demanded Netflix to do so (just as Love Film were forced to switch from Flash as well).
It would be daft for a company who's business is based on streaming content to the masses (such as Netflix's business is) to switch to a platform that fewer people use simply because fewer people use it. No sane web company would do this unless their content was threatened to be pulled by the content owners.
Not sure where you're getting those facts from, but Netflix does use DRM extensions in Silverlight as was pushed into using Silverlight because the copyright holders demanded Netflix to do so (just as Love Film were forced to switch from Flash as well).
It would be daft for a company who's business is based on streaming content to the masses (such as Netflix's business is) to switch to a platform that fewer people use simply because fewer people use it. No sane web company would do this unless their content was threatened to be pulled by the content owners.