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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by zamalek on Friday July 07, 2017 @07:14PM (#14722961)
Agreed. However, Widevine is Google's thing and it's plausible that they'd ship it with some non-free build of Chrome. Unless they're worried about trusting the OS, in which case my original argument is void.
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by jimktrains2 on Friday July 07, 2017 @07:21PM (#14723009)
Plausible sure. anyone using any other plugin is also plausible, though much less likely.

The point is since it's not standard Linux and BSD will get the shaft.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by wbl on Friday July 07, 2017 @08:39PM (#14723386)
Wildvine works on Linux today.
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by jimktrains2 on Friday July 07, 2017 @10:20PM (#14723708)
And other plugins that other providers might choose to use?
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by gsnedders on Saturday July 08, 2017 @07:35AM (#14725045)
In most browsers, they aren't actually plugins in the typical sense. As far as I'm aware, Chrome doesn't allow any other EME modules to be installed, so if a provider wants to work with Chrome they must support Widevine.
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