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> The decision of whether or not to use DRM should be of the site creators. That's as "free" as it gets.

Why does that mean that we should facilitate their use of DRM? If they want to use it, they can specify a third-party plugin.



Because it's a need of the market, using third-party plugin is no harder, maybe even easier to implement. So it's not an overhead for the site implementing it.

But rather it's an overhead for the user. you'll have to install a third-party plugin on your computer. Making it to your job now to make sure this plugin is not security vulnerable, that it is updated etc' etc'. And, it's probably closed. the web is open.


> And, it's probably closed. the web is open.

Do you understand that these new HTML DRM plugins will be closed as well?




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