Firefox gets closed-source DRM

Posted May 16, 2014 13:20 UTC (Fri) by gerv (guest, #3376)
In reply to: Firefox gets closed-source DRM by jra
Parent article: Firefox gets closed-source DRM

> "We see DRM in general as profoundly hostile to all three of: users, open
> source software, and browser vendors who aren’t also DRM vendors.", or
> now he's gone are you planning to revise history on that?

No, we still agree with that. Why are we doing this? Because we had two bad choices, and this one is least bad. Brendan was involved in our strategy to work out what to do about DRM from the very beginning and, if you check his Twitter stream, you'll see that he agreed that this was necessary.

I'm not an apologist for DRM. An apologist for DRM would be someone saying that DRM is a good thing. I'm not saying that. I don't use Netflix or similar services, because I'm not interested in most of the content they offer. I may well never use the Adobe CDM. But I don't fool myself into thinking I'm typical.