Was Brendan Eich removed to get closed source DRM into Firef

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INGSOC
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Was Brendan Eich removed to get closed source DRM into Firefox?




This is a problem because under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the public is prohibited from researching whether DRM software is safe to use or not, because such research constitutes reverse engineering, and reverse engineering DRM software is specifically prohibited under DMCA. This is why DRM is such a nasty thing under US law, and why many people (including the late Steve Jobs) have gone to lengths to fight back against it.

So Firefox’s support for DRM would be a big deal. Additionally, it turns out that the DRM software used by Firefox would not be open source, like the rest of the Firefox project. Mozilla has claimed that Firefox will use various wrapper schemes as a shell game to get around free software licensing issues with respect to the Adobe-supplied DRM software, but to many this is still a violation of the principles of the project.

For reasons like these, Brendan Eich was opposed to DRM in Firefox. But now that he’s out of the way, Hollywood gets its way in Firefox. How convenient.

You will be made to care and you will be made to DRM.
 

LibertyBeacon

Unto dust we shall return
I like the angle.

http://techrights.org/2014/01/14/drm-is-destroying-society/

Those who still don’t understand why DRM is a very bad thing probably just don’t fully grasp DRM. DRM is in many way like a back door and now that the MPAA is part of the World Wide Web Consortium we expect future Web browsers — even FOSS browsers — to contain blobs and perhaps back doors. The MPAA spent many years lobbying to put back doors in every PC, not in order to target terrorists but in order to support an antiquated business model (protectionism, monopoly, and profit).

But this has been a push for a long time, and it was ratcheted up this past January when the MPAA was admitted to the W3C.

But I'm sure like Apple signing the Prism Agreement with the NSA six months after Steve Jobs died, this is just a strange coinkydink.
 
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