Hi Paul, It's actually more complicated than this. Since pretty much everyone at Mozilla hates DRM, we took the least evil option that did not involve project suicide.
Adobe will implement a sandboxed proprietary black box plug-in for decoding DRM-ed data. We will provide an API to make it work and the ability for users to download the plug-in (very streamlined, most likely). The DRM code will *not* be part of Firefox. While the internal API hasn't been designed or implemented yet, I suspect that toggling a preference will be sufficient to remove the streamlined mode for downloading the plug-in. I am pretty sure most Firefox devs will toggle off that preference – I am certainly planning to. Alternatively, TorBrowser should be able to use IceWeasel, the entirely free fork of Firefox. This fork doesn't offer h.264 and will certainly similarly deactivate the DRM-related code. Cheers, David P.S.: I haven't heard about money changing hands, although I wouldn't be surprised if we had to pay Adobe for that. Whether you decide to believe me is, of course, your choice. On 15/05/14 20:08, p...@crable.us wrote: > I just received a message from the Free Software Foundation > advising me that Mozilla has climbed in bed with Adobe > Corporation and will implement digital rights management, > DRM, in FireFox. Until now they had not supported DRM. > They claim to take this act to preserve market share, but it > would not surprise me if money changed hands as an > additional encouragement. > > TOR is not about DRM, but if TOR continues to use FireFox as > the basis for its browser, then the nose of the DRM camel > will appear under the wall of the tent. Some of us have > assiduously avoided DRM, and TOR was one way to do so. Will > it continue to be? > > The source code for FireFox is available free and so the DRM > code could be striped out before making it the TOR browser. > doing so, however, will require additional effort; is TOR > prepared to take on this task? > > Paul > > -- > Paul A. Crable. Portland, Oregon. U.S.A. > PAUL AT CRABLE DOT US > -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla
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