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Their backers may not have asked for DRM support, but they did ask for supporting services that require DRM, such as Netflix. I participated in the kickstarter
by jdboyd 11y ago
Their backers may not have asked for DRM support, but they did ask for supporting services that require DRM, such as Netflix.
I participated in the kickstarter. What I am interested in is less a physical product and more an open platform, but I suspect we won't actually be getting that.
- Caspy7 11y agoThe DRM is being implemented via EME which is a sandboxed* plugin that's invoked by the app. If you don't use it you don't get it. There is no monitoring or reaching into other parts of the app or OS. Firefox (the desktop browser) allows you to disable the EME (which also deletes the plugin). This would be expected behavior on Firefox OS as well. You seemed to indicate that the DRM addition would make it not an open platform so though I'd share that as it still seems like a potentially positive situation. *at least in Firefox