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Is there some reason you can't make a fork/distro of Firefox?
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All DRM solutions eventually fail. It's an endless race. Companies pour millions and millions into media DRM, and yet all of the content is cracked and uploaded on pirate sites, without fail. They don't seem to understand how much of a waste their efforts are, and the government doesn't seem to realize how pointless, and stifling of innovation and competition laws like DMCA are.
I imagine their argument looks something like: We earn billions of dollars a year and want to earn more. We see people are downloading our stuff without paying us. This technology/company/etc promises to make copyright infringement more difficult and it'd only cost us $y million. If we see even a 0.01% increase in sales, it'll pay for itself in x years. Do it! And government is even more straight forward. Media compa…
You better believe some "HDCP-certified 2.0" badge or whatever is on every hdtv and gpu you find at best buy. I wonder if the engineers on hdcp 1.0 knew how fast it would get cracked, but they knew that would just let them sell another round of hardware for the 2nd version.
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but you do have full control... if you don't want to see ads, don't visit sites that use ads to support their business model.
I'll bite. How do you propose I know which sites not to visit without visiting them?
Boy howdy, this is one subject where I loathe saying "I told you so", but... I sure told you so.[1] HTML DRM is antithetical to the Open Web itself. It was built on a sham of "plugin-free" media playback, but all we did was change Flash and Silverlight for a whole range of closed black boxes, which in turn are effectively all controlled by Big Media ( to make it crystal clear: EME was built with third-party decryptio…
To be fair, even if there wasn't a DRM-standard, he still wouldn't be able to build his application, because there would still be DRM.
there's no getting around it. if you want it you have to play by their rules.
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This is what pisses me off aboit ads and data consumption pay rates: if i am paying for “1GB” of data, then i should have full control over how that data gets consumed by the content i am accessing over that paid pipe. Period.
That's why I use Brave Browser, it blocks everything by default. Doesn't even download them.
That doesn’t sound right. It should either say “open source browser Chromium” or “closed source browser Chrome”.
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The Netflix issue isn't really DRM, it's just a way to minimize bandwidth[1]; they found HQ 720 encodes to be sufficient quality for most consumers. I personally find it lacking. [1]: https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/per-title-encode-optimiz...
Nah, it's a DRM thing. You get 4k if you open it in edge with their PlayReady DRM.
I also find the title to be rather sensational.. "I tried creating a web browser" ^ "Google blocked me" implies that Google blocked them from creating a web browser.. which is not the case.
However I simply cannot empathize with you because you made another Webkit/chromium-based thing, and that is certainly not the thing we need right now. With Google monopoly in the web the thing we need is the actual good deviation of their w3c 'standards' realization, like Firefox.
Reskinning Chrome with arguably useful "multiplayer" play-pause feature is just meh.
Boy howdy, this is one subject where I loathe saying "I told you so", but... I sure told you so.[1] HTML DRM is antithetical to the Open Web itself. It was built on a sham of "plugin-free" media playback, but all we did was change Flash and Silverlight for a whole range of closed black boxes, which in turn are effectively all controlled by Big Media ( to make it crystal clear: EME was built with third-party decryptio…
Surprisingly to me the author of "down and out in the magic kingdom" and the maintainer of BOINGBOING supports web DRM and he's part of the W3C committee. he's a great author and a good person with an anti-authoritarian bent I don't understand his position on this.
He used(still does?) publish his books free of DRM and free to download under CC license.
https://craphound.com/overclocked/download/
It would be strange for an author of Printcrime (fantastic short read from 20 years ago) to support DRM.