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Re:Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM by bcoates on Friday October 04, 2013 @03:11PM (#6497317)
Mostly because it's entirely pointless, technologically. Netflix isn't even a particularly good source of digital video for piracy; the free-love internet video sharers are going to rip from the higher-res, sooner-available, better-library, non-DRMed commercial pirate versions.

The only people likely to rip video from Netflix are casual copiers, digital information hoarders, and people with legitimate compatibility/access issues.

It's kind of baffling that anyone making money off this business would want to drive these paying customers into the arms of Bittorrent, YouTube, etc.

Re:Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM by fein on Friday October 04, 2013 @07:55PM (#6498789)
DRM isn't even going to prevent netflix ripping. All you need is FRAPS, or some other high quality screencap software running while watching.

It's not ideal by any means, however still circumvents any sort of protection.

Re:Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM by espadrine on Saturday October 05, 2013 @07:07AM (#6500307)
Assuming the CDM used by the (possibly open-source) browser is open-source, you can just save all the decoded frames.

Someone will do that, big media will be mad, we'll have more laws, browsers will be forced into having a binary blob in by default, avid Netflix watchers will be so happy.

Re:Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM by nl on Sunday October 06, 2013 @06:45AM (#6503699)
You'd think that, and yet there still isn't a working Spotify ripper around that doesn't involve loopback recoding.
Re:Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM by nitrogen on Saturday October 05, 2013 @12:43PM (#6501170)
That's an enormous assumption. Google, Apple, and Microsoft already have closed source, incompatible CDMs.