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I wonder if this will finally kill Firefox? Imagine a world where FF can't play YouTube or watch Netflix? What if DRM content becomes so prevalent it FF will re
by frozenport 13y ago
I wonder if this will finally kill Firefox? Imagine a world where FF can't play YouTube or watch Netflix? What if DRM content becomes so prevalent it FF will render most websites like Lynx?
- guelo 13y agoThat world would really suck. We must do everything we can now to prevent it. Berners-Lee and the W3C don't dictate the web, they have been ignored and overridden before.
- fafner 13y agoI guess in that case they'd add DRM support. Similar to them adding h.264 support now.
- coldpie 13y agoAs far as I'm aware, Firefox doesn't support h.264. They support codecs provided by your operating system. Firefox can't include h.264 decode because they would be violating patent law.
- josteink 13y agoWhat if DRM content becomes so prevalent it FF will render most websites like Lynx? That is the future we can very well face unless we oppose this DRM evil now, at its root, before it enters our HTML standard. Don't attempt to be "pragmatic" about this one; be principled. Stop using any browser supporting the EME initiative.
- spongle 13y agoWell I'll have a lot more time on my hands so perhaps it isn't a bad thing. Perhaps the fragmentation it will cause will destroy closed media on the internet as a whole. Nothing bad can come of it.
- duckduckblert 13y ago> Perhaps the fragmentation it will cause will destroy closed media on the internet as a whole. It almost certainly won't. The majority of consumers won't care (or even notice) so long as good products are being made with the technology.