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Re:Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose by marcosdumay on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @06:44PM (#7746912)
The proposal has an inherent opt-out choice. Content providers provide media within DRM containers, users can choose if they get the media or not.

It's not like anybody can force you to watch the last Hollywood stuff.

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Re:Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose by nullc on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @07:23PM (#7747105)
In other implementations you can't tell if its using the DRM or not.

In the land of PDF you can find things like random federal agencies slapping the protection bits on complete inexplicable things, even though the content is public domain by law. ... just because the knob is there.

The 'you can not use it' opt-out ignores the cost of actually discovering that you should. The Mozilla proposal is better than that because it will tell you. This still doesn't solve all the issues, but its better than you'll find in other popular browsers.

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