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I've been using mozilla since forever. I believe in The Mission. If I went to view media and a message told me it wouldn't work because of DRM, I wouldn't swit

I've been using mozilla since forever. I believe in The Mission. If I went to view media and a message told me it wouldn't work because of DRM, I wouldn't switch browsers to view it. "The medium is the message," and the message you get from DRMed media is rude and uninviting.

technomancy 12y ago
> If I went to view media and a message told me it wouldn't work because of DRM Not that I'm defending their actions, but I think it's worth pointing out that out of the box, this is exactly what will happen when you try to view DRM'd content. The Adobe decoding crap is a separate download that won't ship with Firefox; Mozilla is neither implementing nor distributing closed-source code. The hilarious thing is that they are trying to avoid having the decrypted content "fall into the wrong hands" whatever that means, but it still has to pass through user-modifiable code before the user sees it anyway; they even show it in this diagram: https://andreasgal.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/cdm-graphic_620x920.png https://andreasgal.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/cdm-graphic_6... It almost makes you wonder whether they acknowledge that what they're doing is futile and absurd, and they just hope those in charge of licensing won't notice.
cpeterso 12y ago
You might not mind missing out of Netflix streaming visors, but 99% of Netflix users will just switch to Chrome or IE.