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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by floatboth on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @06:53AM (#15283414)
This is a paranoid slippery slope.

EME existed for several years already, and was implemented in browsers. Standardization doesn't change much.

And no one except the big movie producers even wants to use DRM. If you don't watch movies on the web, you'll never see DRM.

Firefox is DRM-free by default. It will download Widevine CDM if you start watching Netflix, but you can untick a flag in the settings to completely forbid it from downloading the CDM, if you're afraid of accidentally signing up for Netflix :D

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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by mirimir on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @07:10AM (#15283497)
> Firefox is DRM-free by default.

It is now. But next year? In five years? And if it's gone, then what?

> This is a paranoid slippery slope.

Well, it's a slippery slope. And I do tend to plan for the worst. Plus a safety factor.

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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by floatboth on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @07:48AM (#15283731)
Open source software can never be completely "gone".

The "OMG EVERYTHING WILL BE DRM" panic is not new. We've had widely available DRM back when Flash was super popular. And still, to this day, the only DRM'd thing is movies.

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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by mfukar on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @08:04AM (#15283847)
The only thing? What about computer software?

Maybe you meant to type 'the only thing I care about'.

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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by floatboth on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @10:12AM (#15284743)
I actually don't care about movies, very rarely watch them at all. The vast majority of video I watch is YouTube.

I meant to type "I never actually saw DRM on the web in person".

Also, proprietary desktop software is still usually "protected" by just a serial number :D

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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by JadeNB on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @11:09AM (#15285293)
> Also, proprietary desktop software is still usually "protected" by just a serial number :D

The ineffectuality of most DRM isn't really an argument for it (or even just an argument against arguments against it), though.

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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by mfukar on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @01:04PM (#15286476)
> Also, proprietary desktop software is still usually "protected" by just a serial number :D

Not really; there's a lot of sophisticated DRM going around at least since the 70's..

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