Firefox gets closed-source DRM

Posted May 14, 2014 23:38 UTC (Wed) by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
Parent article: Firefox gets closed-source DRM

A couple more reactions:

https://fsf.org/news/fsf-condemns-partnership-between-moz...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/mozilla-and-drm

Firefox gets closed-source DRM

Posted May 15, 2014 0:17 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link] (3 responses)

http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/05/14/to-serve-users.html

Firefox gets closed-source DRM

Posted May 15, 2014 8:53 UTC (Thu) by gerv (guest, #3376) [Link] (2 responses)

http://blog.gerv.net/2014/05/to-serve-users/

Gerv

Firefox gets closed-source DRM

Posted May 15, 2014 12:09 UTC (Thu) by ewan (guest, #5533) [Link] (1 responses)

"My honourable friend Bradley Kuhn thinks Mozilla should serve its users by refusing to give them what they want."

No-one wants DRM. At most people feel that they have to put up with it to get what they do want, but that's only the case so long as middleware providers like Mozilla pander to the DRM companies.

In the case of the 'broadcast flag' some years ago we saw really strong statements from Hollywood that 'premium' and HD content absolutely couldn't possibly be broadcast without it. They didn't get it, and promptly carried on broadcasting premium and HD content anyway, because without ultimately being prepared to sell their product to their customers, they've got no business.

Firefox gets closed-source DRM

Posted May 15, 2014 12:35 UTC (Thu) by gerv (guest, #3376) [Link]

"No-one wants DRM."

No. But they want Hollywood movies (which is what I was referring to by "what they want"), and they are - in overwhelming majority - willing to accept DRM to get what they want.

The broadcast flag analogy is imperfect because both copyright owners and users have very easy alternatives if we refuse to implement this - it's called "use Chrome".

If you are looking for some of the reasons for why Mozilla is in a bad position here, talk to all of the geeks who thought Chrome was "free enough", and switched to it from Firefox and promoted it to their friends.

Firefox gets closed-source DRM

Posted May 15, 2014 18:22 UTC (Thu) by KaiRo (subscriber, #1987) [Link]

http://www.benmoskowitz.com/?p=982