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Thats a horrible solution to suggest. It's like suggesting that people go buy body armor to deal with crime. It non-scaling, do not address the issue, and leaves those most vulnerable exposed. Malware like to target those that are willing to spend money online. That mean those people who are most targeted are also those who won't disable the plugins that makes them vulnerable to attack in the first place. W3C should…
For whatever reason Big Media aren't going to allow you access to their content without the DRM. Not adding support for this standard will not change that. If you have Silverlight installed or play big budget games from Steam/Origin etc the odds are that your system is already full of DRM crap. Ultimately either consumers need to reject DRM or the media companies have to decide not to use it. However at the moment pe…
What is "Big Media"? This is just pure speculation not based on facts.
There is plenty of high quality, paid-for content on the web already which does not require DRM.
IIRC, there are no more DRM on music on iTunes either.
It's just a matter of negotiating. If a company's better at negotiationg DRM-free content than Netflix, then too bad for Netflix. There's no reason why web users should support these costs.