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Better than using flash, which Spotify Web player used to do.
by kasparsklavins 10y ago
Better than using flash, which Spotify Web player used to do.
- chii 10y agonot really. flash is dying, and osx devices is probably going to stop supporting it soon enough, and the rest of the world is going to follow. if DRM isn't in the standard, it illegitimizes any DRM that you have to install, which improves content consumption for users, and hopefully force media producers to use DRM free formats, even when they don't want to (they cannot realistically ask users to install a blob without taking a hit in signup and conversion). however, if DRM is built-in to the browser, users no longer have a gate to cross, and so DRM media will become the norm.
- colde 10y agoMore likely what would happen is that DRM'ed content is only available on mobile devices and Windows. If you think that not having DRM in the browsers would cause anyone to abandon it, you are wrong.
- shmerl 10y agoDRM-free can be achieved. But for that we don't need betrayals like Google's and the like. They only delay things.
- Grue3 10y agoThe difference is, you can, and always were able to disable Flash. Now all that that shit is part of "HTML" and you can't throw away that kitchen sink anymore. Have fun with buggy DRM binary blobs and obscure HTML standards leaking your internal IPs.
- lima 10y ago> obscure HTML standards leaking your internal IPs Like WebRTC? That finally allowed me to uninstall Skype?
- Doctor_Fegg 10y agoI dunno. Back in the Flash days I could guarantee that pretty much any video would play in my browser. Nowadays I have to switch browsers to watch an embedded video on Twitter, for example.