This makes me angry.
The same guy who, Tim Berners-Lee, who constantly screams that “internet is over”, approved this in W3C. The quote about security is absolutely ridiculous too - oh no, someone will know I’m watching game of thrones! What are the risks here?
Fortunately Widevine is maintained by google and eventually will be discontinued lol.
Another hope is that we need to move the big guys like Firefox to keep malware disabled by default so it doesn’t seep into user standard and eventually disappear.
Alternative I’d propose to trojan conspiracy this by raising a fund for open CDM library and purposfully leave backdoor bugs unpatched, but honestly I just see a DRM enable request and I turn off the tab, not sure how long will this last though.
Funny part is that it doesn’t really work - all this effort and damage and your dumb moving pictures still end up on torrents and streaming sites hours later.
DRM is about people establishing control over others. Everyone knows DRM has very obvious glaring flaws.
The way I see it, we the people can build technology however we like it. We don’t need to care about what some standards body says. We don’t need Facebook, Netflix, Google or whatever. We can design websites and web browsers as we please, and choose to avoid garbage services. DRM isn’t going to be the end of us. We’ll always be around and we’ll always come up with something new.
If some DRM garbage the Tim Burners Lee approved really would be the end of us, then it’d be totally miraculous what we’ve accomplished so far. We’re definitely not weak.
all this effort and damage and your dumb moving pictures still end up on torrents and streaming sites hours later.
yup, but I think that the goal with DRM is not to make it impossible for people to break it, but rather make it difficult enough so that the majority of people will be discouraged from doing it, and then hope they’ll just pay for services…
On paper maybe but that’s not how piracy works. There’s usually a dedicated sharing team and majority of pirates are leeches not copyers. By that I mean it only takes 1 person to get the drm for everyone to have it.
Right sorry for the typo. One guy cracks it - every pirate has it. Drm in web case only stops legit customers from downloading the content they paid for. Surely no one is downloading shows and sharing them with friends these days right? When it’s much easier just to torrent or stream it.
This I think is quite likely. To make the path of least resistance to just give them money. It’s far easier now more than ever before. You hardly need to do anything now to perform a transaction.
Convenience and the wiring of our own brains seem to be our own worst enemy sometimes. I think it takes a special kind of person to see the long term effects of just about any decision and to choose the right path based on that foresight.
This makes me angry.
The same guy who, Tim Berners-Lee, who constantly screams that “internet is over”, approved this in W3C. The quote about security is absolutely ridiculous too - oh no, someone will know I’m watching game of thrones! What are the risks here?
Fortunately Widevine is maintained by google and eventually will be discontinued lol.
Another hope is that we need to move the big guys like Firefox to keep malware disabled by default so it doesn’t seep into user standard and eventually disappear.
Alternative I’d propose to trojan conspiracy this by raising a fund for open CDM library and purposfully leave backdoor bugs unpatched, but honestly I just see a DRM enable request and I turn off the tab, not sure how long will this last though. Funny part is that it doesn’t really work - all this effort and damage and your dumb moving pictures still end up on torrents and streaming sites hours later.
DRM is about people establishing control over others. Everyone knows DRM has very obvious glaring flaws.
The way I see it, we the people can build technology however we like it. We don’t need to care about what some standards body says. We don’t need Facebook, Netflix, Google or whatever. We can design websites and web browsers as we please, and choose to avoid garbage services. DRM isn’t going to be the end of us. We’ll always be around and we’ll always come up with something new.
If some DRM garbage the Tim Burners Lee approved really would be the end of us, then it’d be totally miraculous what we’ve accomplished so far. We’re definitely not weak.
yup, but I think that the goal with DRM is not to make it impossible for people to break it, but rather make it difficult enough so that the majority of people will be discouraged from doing it, and then hope they’ll just pay for services…
On paper maybe but that’s not how piracy works. There’s usually a dedicated sharing team and majority of pirates are leeches not copyers. By that I mean it only takes 1 person to get the drm for everyone to have it.
One person to get past the DRM you mean, right?
Right sorry for the typo. One guy cracks it - every pirate has it. Drm in web case only stops legit customers from downloading the content they paid for. Surely no one is downloading shows and sharing them with friends these days right? When it’s much easier just to torrent or stream it.
Yeah, I see your point.
This I think is quite likely. To make the path of least resistance to just give them money. It’s far easier now more than ever before. You hardly need to do anything now to perform a transaction.
Convenience and the wiring of our own brains seem to be our own worst enemy sometimes. I think it takes a special kind of person to see the long term effects of just about any decision and to choose the right path based on that foresight.
Even the best of us have flaws sadly.