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> smaller players to come together and form an open-source working group based on a chromium fork Google can and does use DRM to block even this from happening
by btown 7y ago
> smaller players to come together and form an open-source working group based on a chromium fork
Google can and does use DRM to block even this from happening: https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/google-widevine-blocked-my-browser/ https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/google-widevine-blocked...
Even Mozilla needed to license Widevine from Google to support modern video: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm
Based on the policy evidenced in Maddock's post, it seems impossible to develop an open-source browser in 2019 that supports video streaming.
- Aeolun 7y agoUse an open-source DRM solution?
- frenchy 7y ago> support modern video There's nothing particularly modern about DRM.
- TylerE 7y agoIn some sort of Stallman utopia maybe. In the real world...
- userbinator 7y agoCrack the DRM and do it in a country that does not care about DMCA and has lax copyright laws. You could create an "illegal browser", and judging by how effective all the other antipiracy efforts have been to date (i.e. not at all), I doubt you'll face too much opposition...
- arpa 7y agoOr don't consume DRMed content?
- Sabinus 7y agoSo, all commercial video content on the web?
- josteink 7y agoNot all commercial content is DRMed. Example: Rifftraxx. You can also enjoy lots of high-quality, DRM-free content on YouTube, Vimeo, peertube, fosdem and god knows where. There’s more to internet video than Netflix, Hulu and Prime.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoFrom the perspective of general population - which is where you need adoption to be even a mote of dust next to Chrome - no, there isn't.
- zentiggr 7y agoSure... vote with your wallet, only in video space. When DRM'ed content becomes less popular, companies will have to reconsider. Of course, I'm one of those who doesn't care much about mass media in general. Addictions could make this shift impossible.
- asark 7y agoOr go the "insert DeCSS here" route that some used back when that was a thing. "If you happen to have somehow acquired a WideVine lib, having hash [some string], stick it here if you want to watch Netflix."
- arpa 7y agoWell maybe we don't really need DRM? I mean, there are other sources of entertainment which do not threaten the FOSS
- zwaps 7y agoSure, people gonna use a browser where the only entertainment is a 240p stream of Stallmann chewing his toes. These responses... Dont support amazon or netflix, twitch? Even FOSS needs to be realistic and see what is a solution and what is not. A FOSS product needs to support the things people want to do. Otherwise it will not succeed. We should have learned this in the last twenty years. Without Firefox and its compromises, Google would have 99% market share and FOSS people would browse wuth Lynx or wget
- arpa 7y agoYes, support direct torrent video streaming. Screw the fat cats. Long live Stallman, death to late stage capitalism computing!