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"Mainline web: 0-rated DRMed Netflix if you pay ever-more exorbitant prices for our increasingly tiered package deals that make you try and remember the joy of
by nebabyte 9y ago
"Mainline web: 0-rated DRMed Netflix if you pay ever-more exorbitant prices for our increasingly tiered package deals that make you try and remember the joy of 'cutting the cord'"
"Alternative web: Some competition without DRM, zero-rating, or other nonneutrality bullshit"
You go ahead and stick with your Netflix, buddy, and best of luck to ya.
American ISPs and legal precedent are all of course bought up by the interests building the former, but luckily I'm not tied down here.
- nucleardog 9y agoYour assertion that standardizing DRM forces everyone to use it makes about as much sense as the assertion that teaching teenagers about condoms will make them all have sex.
- nebabyte 9y ago"Don't worry, once we standardize it we won't have to use it!" Sure, I'd be happy to relegate you to subset of people I just ignore on the basis of their inability to learn from history.
- nucleardog 9y agoAnd if we don't standardize it, no one will use DRM, right? Just like how we don't have DRM right now?
- sctb 9y agoCould you please leave out the personal attacks and instead participate in the discussion? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html