Difficult moment for Firefox
What if many users switch to other browsers anyway, because
some users even don't want to be asked about downloading and installing a piece of additional software in order to play a video?
some other users don't want to be asked about downloading and installing a piece of proprietary software that endorses DRM in the web?
What if the corporations that control DRM decide to evolve CDM (the proprietary part) to new-generation-restrictions, and then, it just does not work with Firefox? Or just decide that the open-source sandbox does not implement the restrictions as they wish?
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Users who are uneducated and want 100% ease of use already use Chrome and Internet Explorer. What Firefox could be doing now is trying to educate people about the badness of DRM.
Instead it's trying to be a DRM lite web browser, which sucks for the reasons you listed. I can't say that's a good thing.
What if the corporations that control DRM decide to evolve CDM (the proprietary part) to new-generation-restrictions, and then, it just does not work with Firefox? Or just decide that the open-source sandbox does not implement the restrictions as they wish?
This is irrelevant. It applies to every single web browser on the market, there are very large legal risks for corporations who selectively break software, and web services want more users, not less, so they have a strong disincentive to take such actions.
Douglas Perkins at 2014-05-15T12:50:08Z
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@Douglas Perkins Mozilla claims their implementation (with a free-software sandbox) is different than the others (being the rest proprietary software), and puts the example of providing a 'site' fingerprint to the CDM without revealing user information (it seems the rest create the fingerprint based on device + user information). I wonder if corporations would accept that, or just say, at any time that they want, "no, it should work the same as in Chrome/Safari/IE..."
>> Laura Arjona:
“@Douglas Perkins Mozilla claims their implementation (with a free-software sandbox) is different than the others (being the rest proprietary software), and puts the example of providing a 'site' fingerprint to the CDM without revealing user information (it seems the rest create the fingerprint based on device + user information). I wonder if corporations would accept that, or just say, at any time that they want, "no, it should work the same as in Chrome/Safari/IE..."”
Can you explain me for dummys ? :)
Thank you for your explain Laura . i have understood a little more :)