needed for the last 10 years. Far too much of the internal API is
exposed, and every small adjustment causes applications to stop working.
To kick this off, bump the API version to 0x17 as should have been done
with r246713, but add shims to compensate. Thanks to the shims, there
should be no visible change in application behavior.
I have plans to do a significant overhaul of the API to harnen it for
the future, but until then, I welcome others to add shims for older
versions of the API.
Obtained from: Netflix
