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Re:Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose by dchichkov on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @07:32PM (#7747146)
Interesting. So literally, what we see here is Google pressing Mozilla to support DRM... Google... Don't be evil. Please? Pretty please?
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Re:Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose by wolfgke on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @08:07PM (#7747291)
> So literally, what we see here is Google pressing Mozilla to support DRM

Could you give a source (it doesn't sound implausible, but for statements with such a scope I'm interested in reliable sources)?

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Re:Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose by dchichkov on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @08:32PM (#7747374)
Do I need a source? AFAIK main Encrypted Media Extension advocates were Netflix and Google. See https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/lowering-your-standard... and such. Google has a dominant user share of browsers, so just by supporting DRM Google already creates pressure on all browser developers to support DRM as well. But aside from that, Google is also a major (90%) funding source of Mozilla/Firefox.
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