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> It will be: "You can't watch this video because you don't have IE11 or Chrome" because Firefox will be legally barred from accessing the CDM. This is not in
by chc 13y ago
> It will be: "You can't watch this video because you don't have IE11 or Chrome" because Firefox will be legally barred from accessing the CDM.
This is not in evidence. You might be right, but since there is no obvious reason to believe it, surely you can see why others don't make that assumption.
> And if you want to know how that future under EME looks like, go no further than look back at the 6 years of utter stagnation when IE6 held that monopoly.
I can't understand what parallel you're trying to draw here. The IE 6 monopoly did not arise because of a DRM standard; it arose because Microsoft killed its competition by giving its browser away for free with Windows.
- pyalot2 13y ago> I can't understand what parallel you're trying to draw here. The IE 6 monopoly did not arise because of a DRM standard; it arose because Microsoft killed its competition by giving its browser away for free with Windows. That's correct on the cause. But the cause of why a monopoly comes into being doesn't matter. The effect is what matters, those years spent with the web standing still technology wise. Just like microsoft managed to kill other browsers because they bundled it with their OS, they're now trying to kill other browsers by bundling them with the one and only DRM that will make Netflix work.