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Re:Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose by azakai on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @07:29PM (#7747132)
As the blog post mentioned, the EME stuff will be an option that the Firefox user would need to agree to install. That would be an opportunity to educate users on the topic, I think.
Re:Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose by shmerl on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @07:38PM (#7747171)
I meant it a bit further. Not just disabling the EME external module, but disabling all related code in Firefox itself on the build stage. While functionally it won't make much difference, it would have more of a symbolic nature of making a point. Plus such builds would guarantee that it can't even be enabled at all (without user's knowledge for example).

If there would be build switches to disable that, I'm sure Linux distros with similar to Debian policies will ship versions where it will be disabled altogether.