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<p>"Only a week after the <a
href="https://defectivebydesign.org/dayagainstdrm/">International
Day Against DRM</a>, Mozilla has
announced that it will partner with proprietary software company
Adobe
to implement support for Web-based <a
href="https://defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm_digital_restrictions_management">Digital
Restrictions
Management</a> (DRM) in its Firefox browser, using Encrypted
Media
Extensions (EME).</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.'</p>
<p>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.<br>
....<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fsf.org/news/fsf-condemns-partnership-between-mozilla-and-adobe-to-support-digital-restrictions-management">https://fsf.org/news/fsf-condemns-partnership-between-mozilla-and-adobe-to-support-digital-restrictions-management</a><br>
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