Hi, caveat these are my personal opinions and only that.
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 01:11:39AM +0200, Rubén Martín wrote: > There are a few interesting articles about this topic: > > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/mozilla-and-drm Personally I think there's a lot to be said for the EFF's position here, and they put it far better than I ever could. Personally I'd love to enlist Mozilla into beeting content providers into dropping DRm requirements, but I also remember Michel saying on an unrelated subject that there was some social causes she love to do the same thing with, but doesn't because its not what Mozilla is for. I think her argument has some validity here. > http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/14/firefox-closed-source-drm-video-browser-cory-doctorow > > Quoting The Guardian article: > > When a charitable nonprofit like Mozilla makes a shift as substantial > > as this one -- installing closed-source software designed to treat > > computer users as untrusted adversaries -- you'd expect there to be a > > data-driven research story behind it, meticulously documenting the > > proposition that without DRM irrelevance is inevitable. The large > > number of bytes being shifted by Netflix is a poor proxy for that > > detailed picture.* its really hard to object to there being more data on exactly what people do. > I think this is a very interesting point, have we done this research > (globally, not just the US)? Even if its just the U.S. I think we'd still have a very serious problem on our hands. I personally believe its important to get people to refuse to use Netflixx or equivelents until they stop requiring DRM, but I also find that to be a hard discussion to start with people especially non tech friends. Trev > > Regards. > > -- > Rubén Martín [Nukeador] > Mozilla Reps Mentor > http://www.mozilla-hispano.org > http://twitter.com/mozilla_hispano > http://facebook.com/mozillahispano > > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > governance@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
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