Firefox will adapt closed source DRM

[andrew clarke]

On Wed 2014-05-14 14:44:48 UTC-0400, Antonio Olivares (olivares14031 at gmail.com) wrote:

> Firefox will adapt DRM stuff into it.  Can it be turned off, i.e, when
> compiling it?
> or do we simply move on to another browser?
> 
> http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/14/firefox-closed-source-drm-video-browser-cory-doctorow

"Each person will be able to decide whether to activate the DRM
implementation or to leave it off and not watch DRM-controlled content."

"We plan on deploying it in the Firefox desktop browser for Windows,
Mac and Linux operating systems."

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/05/14/drm-and-the-challenge-of-serving-users/

ie. no FreeBSD support.

There's a slim chance it'll work under FreeBSD's Linux emulation, I suppose.

I imagine the DRM system will be broken (cracked) fairly quickly.

http://www.defectivebydesign.org/

Regards
Andrew