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Re:Reconciling Mozilla’s Mission and the W3C EME by shmerl on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @05:24PM (#7746537)
Engaging in proliferating an unethical practice under pretense that "they have no choice" is a very questionable thing. Netflix had a choice, but they chose to do this.
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Re:Reconciling Mozilla’s Mission and the W3C EME by icebraining on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @05:28PM (#7746553)
No argument there, I was just replying to your question. You're right that Netflix had the choice of not existing.
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Re:Reconciling Mozilla’s Mission and the W3C EME by shmerl on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @05:40PM (#7746610)
Rather the choice of doing something else which doesn't involve unethical practices.
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Re:Reconciling Mozilla’s Mission and the W3C EME by icebraining on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @05:50PM (#7746638)
Yes, I'm sure the people would be doing something else. I was just talking about the company, which would have no reason to exist.
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Re:Reconciling Mozilla’s Mission and the W3C EME by shmerl on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @05:57PM (#7746677)
They could exist trying to concentrate on DRM-free distribution. Others managed that: https://www.headweb.com/en/

Of course it wouldn't have the same scale. But we aren't talking about scale - you mentioned existence as if selling something DRM-free is not possible or not sustainable.

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Re:Reconciling Mozilla’s Mission and the W3C EME by icebraining on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @07:01PM (#7746995)
I don't think the Scandinavian and US markets are comparable, but fair enough, I doubted even something like headweb could exist.
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Re:Reconciling Mozilla’s Mission and the W3C EME by shmerl on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @07:06PM (#7747018)
I wish they could expand. But alas, so far nothing like that is coming.
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