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'We're committed to an open web - that's why we're teaming up with Disney, the company that locks all their content behind DRM.'
by swalls 5y ago
'We're committed to an open web - that's why we're teaming up with Disney, the company that locks all their content behind DRM.'
- SubiculumCode 5y agoWhat media company does not use DRM?
- dleslie 5y agoGOG, Weightless Books and Bandcamp immediately spring to mind.
- SubiculumCode 5y agoWhat movie company?
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- dleslie 5y agoDrafthouse
- Shared404 5y agoSounds like you've got a decent list of companies where you can purchase DRM free media, do you have one released publicly somewhere?
- dleslie 5y ago... No. I've been meaning to start a website. This article rather resonated with me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30328120 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30328120
- Shared404 5y agoPlease do start one! If you're open to the idea of it being on a pubnix, I run one at http://marvilde.cc http://marvilde.cc, and would be happy to get you set up. Or Linode/Hetzner are pretty cheap, I don't have experience with other VPS providers.
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- Rebelgecko 5y agoGOG sells a handful of DRM free movies, mostly gaming related.
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoI'm able to watch programs on PBS.org and the BBC iPlayer without Encrypted Media Extensions. Also The Late Show with Steven Colbert on CBS.com and Seth Myers on NBC. There are probably lots of others, I don't watch very much television.
- cuteboy19 5y agoiPlayer is regionlocked i think
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoIt is indeed, but it still doesn't use Encrypted Media Extensions.
- kevincox 5y agoTo me there is a world of difference between refusing to send me files based on where you think I am and requiring me to run your code on my computer to ensure that I don't do something that you don't like with the files you sent me.
- renewiltord 5y agoYes, that’s right. The perfect way to operate is to have complete ideological purity. As a matter of fact, it is embarrassing that Firefox even runs on Windows (a closed source operating system that has integrated telemetry) and dare I say that perhaps Intel processors are unacceptable too? Firefox should only run on completely open source and open firmware open architectures. Anything less is tantamount to endorsing crimes against mankind. I am currently preparing a breadboard and expect to be completed with my port by 2042. I am going to have to sift for metals in my local stream in order to create resistors that were manufactured by pure provenance. Currently uncertain about my own personal lineage, though. Have I had an unkind ancestor who did not believe in open source? Is it ethical for me to participate given such a taint? Questions of great import. I will consult a pure institutional review board before proceeding.
- xvector 5y agoa new pasta is born?
- SubiculumCode 5y agoThese same people would then complain that Firefox's market share is abysmal.
- dleslie 5y agoThere's a large difference between running on top of a platform built by an ideologically-opposed organization, and actively aiding an ideologically-opposed organization with marketing agreements.
- joebergeron 5y agon-gate sprung a leak again
- ramesh31 5y agoMozilla died years ago. Sad to see what a zombie org it has become.
- dijonman2 5y agoMitchell Baker needs to step down.
- kevingadd 5y agoMozilla fought battles against H264 and video DRM and lost both, giving up marketshare to Google and Apple in the bargain. Why keep wasting energy on a war they already lost? The market spoke and HN posters like you and me are the only people who care.
- dleslie 5y agoBecause for every battle they lost, they won several others. The only reason we're not all using Internet Explorer is because Firefox lost some battles and won many others.