Firefox gets closed-source DRM

Posted May 14, 2014 17:55 UTC (Wed) by krake (guest, #55996)
Parent article: Firefox gets closed-source DRM

Interesting move, especially on the part of Adobe.

They are the only major DRM vendor which does neither have their own browser nor their own OS platform, the other three bigs ones (Apple, Google, Microsoft) have both.

Adobe has likely a lot of server licenses to lose and with the demise of Flash no easy way anymore to make their DRM matter in the eyes of content publishers and distributors.

Will be interesting to see if the Mozilla side of the team can come up with a CDM plugin system so that users won't have to juggle multiple browsers just because different content publishers decide on different DRM schemes to license.

Firefox gets closed-source DRM

Posted May 15, 2014 3:03 UTC (Thu) by keeperofdakeys (guest, #82635) [Link]

It's years ago now, but there was talk of how Adobe was going to make their Flash programs support a HTML5 target. Since for them, it's more about selling the content creation program, and not the Flash platform itself.

Firefox gets closed-source DRM

Posted May 15, 2014 9:30 UTC (Thu) by _xhr_ (guest, #92665) [Link] (1 responses)

I do not know about the others but I already use different browsers. Mostly for security reasons but I also notice that Noscript+ghostery+flash stops working on more and more websites.

Firefox gets closed-source DRM

Posted May 16, 2014 2:29 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

"Stop working" in what ways? They break the site or have exceptions to let sites do nasty things?