Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose

Re:Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose by shkkmo on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @11:59PM (#7747777)

> People will not use a browser that does not support Netflix.

As a flat out statement, that is false. Some people will use a browser that doesn't support netflix, namely those people that don't subscribe to netflix.

The question becomes HOW MANY People will not use a browser that does not support Netflix.

The point is, there was no data provided to use to answer that question.

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Re:Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose by azakai on Thursday May 15, 2014 @12:19AM (#7747821)

Does it matter if it's 30% or 50% or 80%? Ignoring any of those numbers of users is not a viable strategy. People want to watch their Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad or the next high-quality show that comes out, and Hollywood is going to put that show on EME only. That's going to be a lot of people.

We can't predict the specific number but we don't need to - we can very reasonably expect it to be large.

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Re:Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose by Retric on Thursday May 15, 2014 @01:25AM (#7747980)

Netflix has 44 million subscibers which is ~2% of the web and many Netflix subscribers such as myself don't use the web client so it's at best a rounding issue.

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