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Date:      Wed, 14 May 2014 16:15:55 -0500
From:      Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Firefox will adapt closed source DRM
Message-ID:  <5373DD0B.2090500@my.hennepintech.edu>
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On 2014.05.14 15:52, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> I agree with you in the stay in the game part of firefox.  But could
> not they do it with HTML5?
> why is DRM so important that it is needed so much as to stain an
> otherwise decent web browser.
Because if the site only sends an encrypted stream and you don't
have the special plug-in to decode it, no dancing bunnies for you.
There's nothing Firefox can really do to get around it. The only real
solution is to convince websites not to use DRM.



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