Douglas Perkins at 2014-05-19T13:09:04Z

Hmm, I sort of see some of what you're saying but am missing the overall idea. You say I don't see the forest, but let's examine my situation.

  • I have no TV.
  • I have no set-top box.
  • I have no satellite TV.
  • I have no direct-to-mobile service.
  • Physical media meaning ... hard drives? USB drives? CDs? Floppy disks? I have some of those...

It seems like a lot of the groups or services or areas of concern you have are ones that I don't use or interact with. On the other hand, I do use a web browser, and I can certainly choose which one, and I can certainly choose one that's not adding sandboxes for DRM to live in if I want.

If you want to say that creating a sandbox for DRM to live in is not building in DRM, OK, but now we're playing word games. Let's grant you your word game victory, because it's a boring topic. Then let us say that Mozilla is fostering an environment in which DRM can easily thrive.

It is easy to say, "ZOMG big media is the enemy!", and that may or may not be true, depending what you're talking about, but one way of attacking the enemy is to deny them support. That is one reason people are complaining about Firefox. You can't change the status quo by endorsing it, after all.

Also, many people who are anti DRM-sandbox-whatever-you-wanna-call-it are also broadly speaking opposed to monopolies. We vote with our votes, our mouths, and, yes, of course, our wallets.

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