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Firefox bringing you DRM

Name: Anonymous 2014-05-14 18:25

wow, ok so firefox is going to include a DRM binary from adobe inside a "sandbox". it will no longer be 100% free software.

* http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/14/firefox-closed-source-drm-video-browser-cory-doctorow/print
* http://andreasgal.com/2014/05/14/eme/
* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=923590
* https://brendaneich.com/2013/10/the-bridge-of-khazad-drm/

The reason for implementing DRM is to kill DRM, somehow..I think this is just post-hoc justification for the bad decision of compromising their core ideals for the sake of market share.

Name: Anonymous 2014-05-21 3:38

When sites start to require the DRM plugin to the extent that javascript is required today it will theoretically be a problem.
This tells users exactly which website to avoid. Any website that is broken without Javascript is broken by design. They let us know that we should avoid the website altogether. Any websites that use the DRM are also a way of telling users to avoid it completely.

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