FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management
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Free Software Foundation statement may clear some confusion expressed on
this list.
https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-condemns-partnership-between-mozilla-and-adobe-to-support-digital-restrictions-management
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> [...] "Only a week after the International Day Against DRM, Mozilla
> has announced that it will partner with proprietary software
> company Adobe to implement support for Web-based Digital
> Restrictions Management (DRM) in its Firefox browser, using
> Encrypted Media Extensions (EME).
>
> 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.
>
> 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.' [...]
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