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Dear all,
I'd like to raise a few points on that concern, because they are a few dark corners for me. I hope you can throw some light for me on this. What's exactly the matter with supporting DRM? It means that they will have to ship some closed source binary with Firefox so that DRM will properly work in Firefox?
If that's the case, what about letting the users the freedom to choose? Distributions rebuild their Firefox (or equivalent), so they can provide a DRM-free and a DRM-compliant release? I'm seeing this as it could be done for Linux with non-free and free firmwares. Perhaps a too naive approach?
I'd like to highlight some major point in the end: the user must be free. That's IMHO the most important thing, and this shouldn't be forgotten. Let's impersonate a Firefox end-user. They want to be able to browse the web and visit sites that have an interest for them. This might include Netflix for instance. And this requires DRM support. Firefox doesn't have it and plans to have it. Why would we choose for the user what's good or not? That's not free software.
Let's have the upstream developer do what he believes match the users requirements. And let's just ask him possibility to eventually disable such features if they don't match distribution/user philosophy.
Ideally, this should be implemented so that there's only one mainstream firefox and a closed-source module that you can plug/install whenever you need it. This would let the end-user the freedom to use the DRMs (or not).
Do you have any information about how the Mozilla Foundation plans to implement this?
If I'm missing anything, explain me.
Cheers, Pierre
On 05/10/2014 19:10, Hugo Roy wrote:
Hi,
There's a petition to ask Mozilla to remove DRM
https://www.change.org/p/mozilla-remove-drm-from-firefox#invite
Best,
-- Hugo Roy, Free Software Foundation Europe, <www.fsfe.org> Deputy Coordinator, FSFE Legal Team, <www.fsfe.org/legal> Coordinator, FSFE French Team, <www.fsfe.org/fr>
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