[nmglug] mozilla adopting adobe digital restrictions

[Jason Schaefer]

"Only a week after the International Day Against DRM 
<https://defectivebydesign.org/dayagainstdrm/>, Mozilla has announced 
that it will partner with proprietary software company Adobe to 
implement support for Web-based Digital Restrictions Management 
<https://defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm_digital_restrictions_management> 
(DRM) in its Firefox browser, using Encrypted Media Extensions (EME).

The Free Software Foundation is deeply disappointed in Mozilla's 
announcement. The decision compromises important principles in order to 
alleviate misguided fears about loss of browser marketshare. It allies 
Mozilla with a company hostile to the free software movement and to 
Mozilla's own fundamental ideals.

Although Mozilla will not directly ship Adobe's proprietary DRM plugin, 
it will, as an official feature, encourage Firefox users to install the 
plugin from Adobe when presented with media that requests DRM. We agree 
with Cory Doctorow that there is no meaningful distinction between 
'installing DRM' and 'installing code that installs DRM.'

We recognize that Mozilla is doing this reluctantly, and we trust these 
words coming from Mozilla much more than we do when they come from 
Microsoft or Amazon. At the same time, nearly everyone who implements 
DRM says they are forced to do it, and this lack of accountability is 
how the practice sustains itself. Mozilla's announcement today 
unfortunately puts it -- in this regard -- in the same category as its 
proprietary competitors.
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https://fsf.org/news/fsf-condemns-partnership-between-mozilla-and-adobe-to-support-digital-restrictions-management

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