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The Pro-DRM side has netflix and a bunch of other DRMed media sites which will work if people switch to Google's Chrome browser or MSIE. Whats your leverage?
by nullc 14y ago
The Pro-DRM side has netflix and a bunch of other DRMed media sites which will work if people switch to Google's Chrome browser or MSIE.
Whats your leverage?
- josteink 14y agoIf you are willing to install various random black-box binaries from random pages on the internet. We saw how well that played out with ActiveX. This is pretty much the same, just even less open-source friendly, since the intent is the deprive the machine running the code of access to the content. Let's not make a rerun of that. The second this goers mainstream expect a bunch of free "porn sites" saying you need to install their "DRM plugin" to view the content. And voila you have browser-assisted trojan installations. Firefox and other browsers supporting the open-web, without DRM, will have leverage that it doesn't ship with a gaping open door for spyware, malware and viruses to enter. It will be the only browser with the user's interest in mind. We've already seen how Google is abandoning that in Chrome. This will only make it more apparent.