Due to pressure from studios, Lovefilm will no longer be using Flash to stream online video. The European rental and streaming service announced yesterday that without moving to the more DRM-friendly Silverlight, it would "suddenly have next-to-no films to stream online." Flash will run alongside Silverlight until the first week of January, and streaming to devices won't be affected. However, this change marks the end of Lovefilm for Linux, one of the few advantages the service had over its American analogue Netflix, which has used Silverlight exclusively for some time. Lovefilm's parent company, Amazon, still uses Flash for its online streaming.