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You're not the devil's advocate here. I remember talking about EME on here before and when it was being spec'd. The general attitude was, "I hate DRM! ...but th
by chjj 10y ago
You're not the devil's advocate here. I remember talking about EME on here before and when it was being spec'd. The general attitude was, "I hate DRM! ...but then again, I DO like netflix!" It was pathetic to watch people sacrifice their principles just because they liked the convenience of netflix. Everyone who did that will regret it eventually.
20 years from now we'll all be reminiscing about the days when the web was still open. We'll kick ourselves for folding on this issue in just because we wanted to watch some throwaway movies on netflix.
Secondly, who cares whether netflix gets the rights to stream movies? That's their problem, not mine. Instead of finding a better solution, they make it everyone else's problem by pushing EME and shoehorning DRM into html.
- tunap 10y ago"It was pathetic to watch people sacrifice their principles just because they liked the convenience of X." You said a mouthful. This is what the last 14 years look like in my rear-view. To be honest, I did get kicked off FB for being too old, my Ebay junky problem preceded this century and I did love playing euchre w/ my gramma on Excite. Then the dotcom refugees came back and those start-up search guys came & wrote in big letters on the wall(and plainly in the 1st paragraphs of their EULA). Of course, everybody eventually follows the easy money path and the privacy fleecing is thusly justified, "Everybody's doing it!".