YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters

Re:YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters by aikah on Saturday February 07, 2015 @03:30AM (#9013469)

    How is that punishing a paying customer?

You must be young, forgetting about formats like WMV or WMA where you couldn't open the file without the proper license installed on your computer.That's what DRM is about.And of course you needed to log to a server regularly to renew the license, or you couldn't listen or watch the media anymore.

Just like games, pirates don't have issues with online license verification,since they play pirated games that got rid of them.

Obviously vendors did a nice job not only brainwashing the legislator but also the client.

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Re:YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters by geofft on Saturday February 07, 2015 @02:07PM (#9014950)

I remember those formats clearly! Online streaming seems like a very different sort of thing, is my point. When you have a DRM-locked download, you expected to have an unlocked download. When you have a DRM-locked stream, did you expect to hold on to the stream in any form?

I think that we are remembering "DRM" from the days of DRM'd downloads, which was a terrible thing, and applying that memory here where it does not fit.

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