Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled

Re:Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled by bitL on Sunday January 29, 2017 @07:17PM (#13517695)

Yahoo! is going belly up so not sure they can rely on search agreements for much longer. It's better if they have some direct small individual customers I think.

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Re:Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled by twblalock on Sunday January 29, 2017 @08:26PM (#13517985)

I'm pretty sure Mozilla has a clause in the contract with Yahoo that covers this: http://www.recode.net/2016/7/7/12116296/marissa-mayer-deal-m...

"According to the change-of-control term, 9.1 in the agreement, Mozilla has the right to leave the partnership if — under its sole discretion and in a certain time period — it did not deem the new partner acceptable. And if it did that, even if it struck another search deal, Yahoo is still obligated to pay out annual revenue guarantees of $375 million."

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Re:Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled by ddito on Monday January 30, 2017 @01:48AM (#13519141)

So if Mozilla goes to another search engine, Yahoo still needs to pay them for nothing? How did Yahoo agree to this?

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Re:Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled by fapjacks on Monday January 30, 2017 @02:24AM (#13519249)

That's Marissa Mayer for you. [0]

[0] http://www.recode.net/2016/7/7/12116296/marissa-mayer-deal-m...

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