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Dear Thomas,
Thanks for your link, I indeed missed.
Actually, this link is really relevant. To make it short, Mozilla is not about to implement a new DRM into Firefox, but just adding support for such DRM (in a sandbox, even). As it has been done for NPAPI, which is the example they often give on this blog post.
They even talked about "module", which really makes me think that we could unload this from Firefox. And thus, you'd be able to plug it on demand.
This even goes a bit farther in my previous opinion, there's no need to oppose to Mozilla pushing support for DRM into Firefox. They implement an API to support them, they don't provide them. This will likely be a matter of shipping afterwards: do you provide the module?
At least, with the API available, you let the user free to have DRM support or not. Why would we have to oppose this? They offer the choice, they don't force the user? If he doesn't want the module and wants to remain fully open source, he's free to do so.
Regarding your last statement Thomas, I've to point that DRM are still required for some contents in HTML5. I mean, switching to HTML5 won't solve the DRM issue. This is actually what Netflix (still a good example for this) relies on to bring its services to Linux users: HTML5 + DRM. This allows them to move away from Silverlight and Windows.
Side note for the usage, as you wondered, still reading the link you pointed, 30% of the downstream traffic in North America is DRMed.
Cheers, Pierre
On 05/10/2014 21:32, Thomas Doczkal wrote:
On 10/05/2014 07:55 PM, Pierre Schweitzer wrote:
Do you have any information about how the Mozilla Foundation plans to implement this?
Hi Pierre,
I think this link [1] which you might not have seen on change.org explains the way Mozilla considers to go.
They already have some options in mind. One option mentioned is creating a fork of Firefox which has DRM included and offering both to the users. IMHO this sounds like a chrome vs. chromium thing. I think it's a similar story here.
I don't have enough background knowledge about DRM to know how often you will need this to have a "good" Internet experience. All I know is that neither DRM nor Silverlight will work on Linux comfortable. I can't believe that Adobe will support GNU! Linux in there Access CDM for long. They recently stopped to support the adobe reader[2] which IMHO mainly companies use in there work flows. They also changed support for Flash player to maintenance mode and haven't done more then critical bug fixes for quite some time. Furthermore support for Adobe Air (which is I think less painful then the other two above) is no longer given for Linux OS.
I think it's time to stop DRM and push HTML5 further to get an open web experience with many advantages compared to HTML Version 4 or less.
Let's see what time brings.
Best Regards, Thomas
[1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-mission-and-w3c-eme/
[2]
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Linux-No-Longer-Listed-as-Supported-Platform-...
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