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In theory, an easy workaround would be a clean fork stripped of blacklists etc. But that is why there is an effort to introduce drm in browsers: to make you un
by cabirum 3y ago
In theory, an easy workaround would be a clean fork stripped of blacklists etc.
But that is why there is an effort to introduce drm in browsers: to make you unable to use unsigned/non-lcomplying browsers to use the web at all.
- ezfe 3y agoA non compliant website wouldn’t care about that though
- rolph 3y agoA non compliant website wouldn’t be indexed as well.
- izzydata 3y agoSounds like this would spawn an entire second internet.
- malermeister 3y agoTor already exists!
- izzydata 3y agoThat seems more encrypted then would be necessary. There would be the locked down DRM verified by Google internet then there would be the internet that just requires an open source browser and only works to get to all the non-DRM internet websites. Basically you would simply do nothing to DRM your site and you'd automatically become part of the open internet rather than the DRM internet.
- mattnewton 3y agoAfraid to point this out, less people get the idea to enforce web integrity at the ISP level, like some of the efforts against music piracy / torrenting.
- ddtaylor 3y agoRight now with how the attempts are structured everything happens at the TLS level, which means anyone wanting to enforce that would require access to the SSL private key. ISPs and other actors already have the toola via DNS and IP blocking to enforce what they want.
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 3y agoCloudflare already MITMs most of the internet so they will do it when the time comes.
- croes 3y agoNext step, those browsers are declared illegal and users got to jail
- xcdzvyn 3y agoOh please..
- zarzavat 3y agoThe law would actually push people towards freer browser. Browsers made by multinationals like Google, Apple and MS would have to obey, but other browsers could ignore it as long as they don’t have a presence in France. So the law works against the push to DRM, not for it. Oh glorious unintended consequences.
- estebarb 3y agoNo, it won't. Sadly most people doesn't have that tech expertise. And how you would run an open source browser in a walled garden like iOS or similar?
- pokepim 3y ago[dead]
- hyperman1 3y agoYou're now betting against the teenage sex drive of the whole planet We've seen mod chips in game consoles go from obscure to everyone-knows-someone-to-install-them, and thats with the brakes of cheater branding. Piracy is unstoppable. The pirate bay just won't die, and that's only 1 location and lost its importance long ago. People will fight to access copyrighted works. Someone will package an access path in an easily accessible way, and hordes of kids will jump on it. Netflix as easily accessible platform was the only working piracy solution with some chance, and corporate greed broke it.
- OfSanguineFire 3y ago> You're now betting against the teenage sex drive of the whole planet Teenagers want porn. The “infringing sites” discussed in the linked article isn’t about porn. No one thinks that the French government is going to require that browsers block Pornhub, Reddit’s gone-wild subs, or Xvideos. Your view of hordes of kids keen on pirating is rather dated. Sure, some people still pirate. But due to the rise in streaming and media-as-a-commodity, piracy is no longer even the same marginal cultural force that it was a decade ago.
- Nifty3929 3y agoBut now that makes you a criminal and gives the government that control over you, should you come into their line of sight. Most likely you get away with it - as long as you otherwise keep your head down and don't make trouble for the rulers.