From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 14 21:16:07 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 52C5284D for ; Wed, 14 May 2014 21:16:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from na01-bn1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-bn1lp0140.outbound.protection.outlook.com [207.46.163.140]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mail.protection.outlook.com", Issuer "MSIT Machine Auth CA 2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0D63A2AF6 for ; Wed, 14 May 2014 21:16:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from BY2PRD0310HT004.namprd03.prod.outlook.com (10.255.80.39) by BL2PR03MB196.namprd03.prod.outlook.com (10.255.230.155) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.944.11; Wed, 14 May 2014 21:15:57 +0000 Received: from [10.0.0.21] (98.240.141.71) by pod51008.outlook.com (10.255.80.39) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.16.459.0; Wed, 14 May 2014 21:15:56 +0000 Message-ID: <5373DD0B.2090500@my.hennepintech.edu> Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 16:15:55 -0500 From: Andrew Berg User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Subject: Re: Firefox will adapt closed source DRM References: <20140514222320.cce7c921.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [98.240.141.71] X-Forefront-PRVS: 0211965D06 X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: SFV:NSPM; SFS:(6009001)(428001)(199002)(189002)(24454002)(102836001)(21056001)(83072002)(101416001)(86362001)(92566001)(64126003)(92726001)(85852003)(31966008)(74502001)(59896001)(74662001)(77982001)(80316001)(83322001)(87936001)(50466002)(81542001)(81342001)(83506001)(79102001)(75432001)(4396001)(23676002)(50986999)(65816999)(54356999)(87266999)(77096999)(76176999)(33656001)(76482001)(20776003)(47776003)(64706001)(46102001)(80022001)(65806001)(65956001)(66066001); DIR:OUT; SFP:; SCL:1; SRVR:BL2PR03MB196; H:BY2PRD0310HT004.namprd03.prod.outlook.com; FPR:; MLV:sfv; PTR:InfoNoRecords; A:0; MX:1; LANG:en; Received-SPF: None (: my.HennepinTech.edu does not designate permitted sender hosts) Authentication-Results: spf=none (sender IP is ) smtp.mailfrom=aberg010@my.HennepinTech.edu; X-OriginatorOrg: my.hennepintech.edu X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 21:16:07 -0000 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.