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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by azakai on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:11PM (#15279634)
Mozilla opposed EME very strongly. But when it was clear that Google, Microsoft and Apple all supported it and were shipping it, Mozilla was forced to ship it as well (with a flag that makes it easy to disable for users that want to).
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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by wolfgke on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:16PM (#15279675)
> Mozilla was forced to ship it as well

If anybody was forcing them, it were the media companies.

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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by kibwen on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:49PM (#15279956)
Google is also a media company. (Microsoft too, though Xbox isn't especially relevant here.)

EDIT: Yes, and Apple, I completely forgot about iTunes.

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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by emodendroket on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:54PM (#15280004)
Surely we can count Apple among media companies as well.
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