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Re:Save Firefox by throwaway2048 on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @06:42PM (#11679967)
It dosent get rid of the "1000s of adhoc plugins" problem whatsoever, CDMs (the thing EME is merely a bridge to) are platform specific, closed source, arbitrary blobs of code that can do anything on the host system, you do not target "EME" as a streaming host you target these CDMs.
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Re:Save Firefox by serge2k on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @07:32PM (#11680246)
In practical sense it does because the big content providers are incentivized to work with the common DRM solutions, in order to keep eyes on their product without causing massive headaches for everyone involved. Smaller producers don't have the influence to start putting out custom DRM solutions.

You will probably still have the morons who insist they need some special thing, but that's just standard.

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Re:Save Firefox by icebraining on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @07:21PM (#11680195)
As I pointed out above, on Firefox they can't "do anything on the host system" as they'll be sandboxed and allowed only the necessary mechanisms to do their job.
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Re:Save Firefox by JBReefer on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @10:12PM (#11680891)
They can't call out at all? I have doubts, but would accept a source.
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Re:Save Firefox by cpeterso on Thursday May 12, 2016 @12:04AM (#11681254)
Here is a description of Firefox's CDM sandbox:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-missi...

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