I can understand why Mozilla went with this decision. I can understand the rationale behind it. And pragmatically speaking, if Mozilla folds because too many users abandon it in order to view the latest episodes of honey-booboo or whatever on netflix, then that also means that there is no longer an open codebase (Firefox) being maintained by a large organization, and other browsers based on it like Iceweasel et al. will have to maintain their codebase by themselves, for which they may not have enough resources.
It's still crap. It's entirely unnecessary, it doesn't improve anything, all it does is hides the DRM out of sight, it doesn't really even change anything. DRM is entirely pointless, people who really want to circumvent it can do so... if it comes to that, one can always use screen capture and if that is prevented, nothing is every going to be able to stop you from pointing a camera towards your monitor...
In any case, I don't blame Mozilla for it, they can't be expected to fight the windmills by themselves. It'd still be better if we could have avoided this travesty, but what can you do... one can only hope that this move will pay off in the future, that we'll be able to better push back against hollywood/RIAA/etc powergrabs in the future... Also, I hope that this can be disabled in the settings or otherwise blocked so that no one can accidentally load any CDM's on their computer...
It's still crap. It's entirely unnecessary, it doesn't improve anything, all it does is hides the DRM out of sight, it doesn't really even change anything. DRM is entirely pointless, people who really want to circumvent it can do so... if it comes to that, one can always use screen capture and if that is prevented, nothing is every going to be able to stop you from pointing a camera towards your monitor...
In any case, I don't blame Mozilla for it, they can't be expected to fight the windmills by themselves. It'd still be better if we could have avoided this travesty, but what can you do... one can only hope that this move will pay off in the future, that we'll be able to better push back against hollywood/RIAA/etc powergrabs in the future... Also, I hope that this can be disabled in the settings or otherwise blocked so that no one can accidentally load any CDM's on their computer...
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