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> When the choice is between proprietary apps or DRM for multimedia content inside open web environment Why? That puts the cost of DRM on everyone except the o
by josteink 10y ago
> When the choice is between proprietary apps or DRM for multimedia content inside open web environment
Why? That puts the cost of DRM on everyone except the ones who want to freeload on our open tech to take our freedom away.
And that's ass backwards.
You want non-free and closed? Cool deal. Go build it yourself.
- astrodust 10y agoFree as in freedom means companies are free to add things like DRM if the want and consumers are free to choose services that don't go down that path.
- aurelianito 10y agoMmmmmmm, only if I can edit the source of the DRM program and make my own modified version.
- CJefferson 10y agoYou want free and open? Go build that yourself. People do build Firefox and chrome without this, go download them and enjoy yourself.
- hsivonen 10y agoIf you don't want Widevine, you can simply uncheck the “Play DRM content” checkbox in Mozilla-distributed Firefox, and the CDM doesn’t get downloaded and gets deleted if it was already downloaded. No need for a different build. Be sure to uninstall Flash and Silverlight, too.
- scythe 10y ago>That puts the cost of DRM on everyone except the ones who want to freeload on our open tech to take our freedom away. This argument implicitly assumes that the big cost of DRM is actually implementing the DRM. Everyone knows that isn't true. The social cost of DRM is the effect on the users' freedom, and if the users are using entirely proprietary applets they're probably less free than if they depend on a single proprietary library.