Mozilla fought DRM until the very end and lost. If Firefox is to have any chance at remaining a mainstream browser it needs to support Netflix and the likes. You can't seriously blame them for this, because they are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
EME is implemented as unintrusively, securely and privately in Firefox as possible. No DRM is downloaded or run on your computer until you specifically consent to it, and the DRM components run in a sandbox.
> Mozilla fought DRM until the very end and lost. If Firefox is to have any chance at remaining a mainstream browser it needs to support Netflix and the likes. You can't seriously blame them for this, because they are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
Yes I can, and I will, because they sold out. They sold out their principles for the sake of market share. (And looking at their marked share, fat lot of good that did for them anyway.)
I'd suggest you research the topic of negative and positive liberty. I'm all for a free and open source experience but what about the liberties of content creators? What about my right to as a user to be offered content with the knowledge that I won't and don't want to know its inner workings as long as it's passive non-malicious code?
I will be happy to do so, once consumers and content creators (and specifically the companies they sell rights to) are on a level playing field in terms of legal protections and lobbying powers.
This isn't about the money or power you or I have. This is about freedom to distribute content and the agreement between the user and the creator while you're asking the browser to be the ideological arbiter of this transaction. If you're all for freedom, you should logically see that not including the DRM option is inhibitive of both the user's and the creator's freedoms. As a browser, it should be ideologically agnostic to my downloading of an executable or zip file that goes against freedom, privacy and all that we hold dear and it should still be my right and freedom to download and view as I legally please. The Richard Stallman approach does have its limits.
Excuse me, but did you support Mozilla with time/money?
> They sold out their principles for the sake of market share.
12% is still better than 1%, and the thing that mostly changed the landscape was the fact that mobile Internet heavily disfavors Mozilla (e.g. Android ships with Chrome, iPhone with Safari), and Google has a heavy advantage when it comes to advertising and engineering.
Mozilla fought DRM until the very end and lost. If Firefox is to have any chance at remaining a mainstream browser it needs to support Netflix and the likes. You can't seriously blame them for this, because they are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
EME is implemented as unintrusively, securely and privately in Firefox as possible. No DRM is downloaded or run on your computer until you specifically consent to it, and the DRM components run in a sandbox.