I'll never allow DRM extensions in my browser
If this comes as browser extensions, no distro should install any of them by default. If they do, I will remove them on all systems I distribute. Any browser with baked-in DRM support rather than extensions I won't use, staying with older versions or "stripped" versions that can be custom-compiled. We don't need this shit anymore than we needed iTunes support for Crapple's former DRM scheme.
I never enable any kind of "premium content" in any browser or computer, for any purposes. Any media with DRM that nobody has cracked I don't want in my house or on my systems. I even went so far as to remove HAL to disable DRM support in Flash. If enough people refuse to use paid media, not only DRM but the corporations behind it would go away. Remember, no copyright law ever prohibits you from ignoring proprietary content entirely.
With DRM support in Flash on my machines deliberately broken, the only videos I find that won't play are those where my security and NoScript settings block them and I can't find out what to enable without enabling untrusted 3ed party servers that might try to fingerprint the browser or do other malicious things. I control my computers, Hollywood and the RIAA/MPAA do not and never will.
We should do everything we can to obstruct and impede development of HTML 5 DRM. That can include sabotaging agreement on common standards, encouraging Mozilla to ignore any API required by DRM extensions, making sure the Linux kernel can never be "secured" against interception of A/V streams by whoever owns the machine and has root, etc. If the DRM extensions have to check for a special kernel, I suspect most distros would think twice about letting a browser query that kind of data. I keep mine locked up with a custom apparmor profile to impede that sort of crap.
Originally posted by dee.
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I never enable any kind of "premium content" in any browser or computer, for any purposes. Any media with DRM that nobody has cracked I don't want in my house or on my systems. I even went so far as to remove HAL to disable DRM support in Flash. If enough people refuse to use paid media, not only DRM but the corporations behind it would go away. Remember, no copyright law ever prohibits you from ignoring proprietary content entirely.
With DRM support in Flash on my machines deliberately broken, the only videos I find that won't play are those where my security and NoScript settings block them and I can't find out what to enable without enabling untrusted 3ed party servers that might try to fingerprint the browser or do other malicious things. I control my computers, Hollywood and the RIAA/MPAA do not and never will.
We should do everything we can to obstruct and impede development of HTML 5 DRM. That can include sabotaging agreement on common standards, encouraging Mozilla to ignore any API required by DRM extensions, making sure the Linux kernel can never be "secured" against interception of A/V streams by whoever owns the machine and has root, etc. If the DRM extensions have to check for a special kernel, I suspect most distros would think twice about letting a browser query that kind of data. I keep mine locked up with a custom apparmor profile to impede that sort of crap.
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