Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 22:23:20 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Firefox will adapt closed source DRM Message-ID: <20140514222320.cce7c921.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <CAJ5UdcMyKL8xjzveigLeoupNPXau042Mh6kMRb3krLwDQ6XYZg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJ5UdcMyKL8xjzveigLeoupNPXau042Mh6kMRb3krLwDQ6XYZg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 14 May 2014 14:44:48 -0400, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Dear folks, > > Firefox will adapt DRM stuff into it. Can it be turned off, i.e, when > compiling it? > or do we simply move on to another browser? That would not help much. Many users have "Flash" installed, which is also closed source and implements DRM as well. Such kind of plugins, usually video players or gaming interfaces, have been used by websites for at least a decade to restrict the access to the content. Now that there seems to be a W3C "consensus" of making such functionality part of HTML, there's hardly a way around it. If Firefox does not implement the restriction management within its "HTML engine", it will appear to the user that "the web is broken", which (of course) is a fault of the browser, so in order to see the dancing bunnies, he will switch to a different browser which applies the restriction management accordingly. And if this functionality is only available or legal in proprietary (non-open, non-free) form, then it's basically the same approach as installing a "Flash" plugin. I don't want to sound impolite, but following this trend is the only chance of Firefox to "stay in the game". :-( More inspiration here: http://andreasgal.com/2014/05/14/eme/ -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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