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		wolfgke on May 14, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We... > no. drm will still be an add-on, just like it is today. Flash is not an add-on, but a plugin. And there is a good reason why plugins have a bad image and browser developers and users prefer to get rid of them.

higherpurpose on May 14, 2014 [–]

Watch Netflix, the champion of "HTML5 DRM", go back to a plugin in order to use P2P streaming within the next 18 months.

lern_too_spel on May 15, 2014 | [–]

P2P streaming can be built on top of WebRTC fairly easily.

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