Re:Mozilla Launches a New Firefox Version Without DRM Support
by pdkl95 on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @06:28PM
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How typical of the DRM/closed-web subset of the tech community to justify their collaboration with accusations of piracy at those of us trying to create a free and open web.
Resisting any type of DRM from the very beginning is important, because the fight will be a lot harder once there is an established community of users. Educating people about DRM is hard enough; it is almost impossible when it also requires convincing people to give up some service (i.e. netflix) that they have grown accustomed to.
This is the latest battle the ongoing War On General Purpose Computing[1], and a lot of people that should know better are choosing movies and the dream of short-term profits over long-term freedom.
Re:Mozilla Launches a New Firefox Version Without DRM Support
by pXMzR2A on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @05:44PM
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> EFF-card-carrying subset of the tech community, people who are most able and least ethically inhibited from piracy anyway.
Good rhetoric. They are evil because they believe in ethics. Go for it dude, who's holding you!
This is a good reason to keep the functionality out of mainstream browsers, but it doesn't seem to work if it's just us using deliberately hobbled browsers.