Re: Mozilla blog: DRM and the Challenge of Serving Users

On 16/05/14 12:27, cobaco wrote:
> I don't, but the industry is making that increasingly hard by:
> 
> - trying very hard to eliminate all the main-stream software choices that 
> allow me to do so 

Er, no. You will still be able to say No at the DRM prompt, and Firefox
will work for you (you are a Firefox user, right? After all, it would be
deeply embarrassing for you to berate us when you don't actually use our
product and support us) just the way it did before.

> Not being dictator of the world that's the *only* thing I can do when I see 
> other people or organizations (like the W3C and Mozilla) fall of the wagon and 
> start doing what I consider harmful shit namely actively supporting the 
> misfeature called DRM 

And we aren't dictators of the world either.

> (before you start: creating entirely new special purpose api's, sandbox 
> systems, and bodies of code is definitely in the category 'actively 
> supporting')

Make sure you don't equivocate on the word "supporting". We support DRM
technically, in that we are making it work. We don't support DRM
ethically or politically.

Gerv

Received on Friday, 16 May 2014 12:37:41 UTC