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Not with extensions, with plug-ins, and they were already doing it. Flash and Silverlight came with DRM for any publisher that wanted to use it. Many did.
by asadotzler 7y ago
Not with extensions, with plug-ins, and they were already doing it. Flash and Silverlight came with DRM for any publisher that wanted to use it. Many did.
- vetinari 7y agoPlugins would be fine; you could always point out, that they are non-standard. Now, if you fail to support the right EME plugin, it is the browsers fault.
- asadotzler 7y agoBack in the day a browser without those plugins was not viable. Non-standard didn't matter.
- vetinari 7y agoI know, but that's not the point. The point is, that the pain for the non-standard support had to be taken by the proponents of DRM. Now, it is up to the foss crowd. IOW, it was not about tech issue, but about social issue / blame-shifting.