Yup. Firefox already has options for DRM content. You can opt in or out.
This thing is a serious blow to privacy but not sure what we can do now.
I feel most sorry for the US as between DRM in HTML and Net Neutrality being scrapped they will have a totally different internet.

And what goes in the US, will go around the world... especially when it comes to the Internet.

Quoting: razing32Yup. Firefox already has options for DRM content. You can opt in or out.
This thing is a serious blow to privacy but not sure what we can do now.
I feel most sorry for the US as between DRM in HTML and Net Neutrality being scrapped they will have a totally different internet.

Not that I'm a fan of DRM at all, but according to this website ( https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm ), the software for decoding DRM-ed content is sandboxed ("The CDM runs in a separate container called a sandbox and you will be notified when a CDM is in use." ), so it can't spy on you (except for, perhaps, reporting what DRM-ed content you watch, but the point is that your system is hidden).

Quoting: SalvatosAnd what goes in the US, will go around the world... especially when it comes to the Internet.

Unfortunately, I think you're right. (Not that it should take us being affected to care about others being affected. Also, I'm not implying that you meant that.)

Nasty stuff. W3C sold out to the DRM lobby. We should blame Netflix, Google, Amazon and MS for it. They were the heavy pushers of this trash.

Quoting: SalvatosAnd what goes in the US, will go around the world... especially when it comes to the Internet.

Not necesseraly, it all depends on if the other big players embrace a change or not. It also depends on people, whether they value their freedom or their comfort higher.

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Quoting: SalvatosAnd what goes in the US, will go around the world... especially when it comes to the Internet.

Not necesseraly, it all depends on if the other big players embrace a change or not. It also depends on people, whether they value their freedom or their comfort higher.

Pretty sure that means we're doomed

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Quoting: dvd

Quoting: SalvatosAnd what goes in the US, will go around the world... especially when it comes to the Internet.

Not necesseraly, it all depends on if the other big players embrace a change or not. It also depends on people, whether they value their freedom or their comfort higher.

Pretty sure that means we're doomed

Well i agree with you. But I'm more concerned about hardware solutions like the PSP, which are far more harmful in my opinion. Activists/enthusiasts can always write software, or create a community. Influencing laws / creating alternative competition in that case requires serious money which the free software/computing community lacks. And it's not like people haven't chosen comfort over freedom in their choice of hardware.