[gentoo-user] Firefox and Adobe's DRM plugin

[gentoo-user] Firefox and Adobe's DRM plugin

[Mick]

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Does anyone know if Gentoo will provide a USE flag to enable this if desired?

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-mission-and-w3c-eme/

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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Adobe's DRM plugin

[the]

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On 05/15/14 23:31, Mick wrote:
> Does anyone know if Gentoo will provide a USE flag to enable this
> if desired?
> 
> https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-mission-and-w3c-eme/
>
> 
Yes, I received a very disturbing letter from FSF today.
It's never late to switch to another broswer (I thought to myself
pretending midori merge).
I guess it must be configurable in the browser.
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[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and Adobe's DRM plugin

[»Q«]

On Thu, 15 May 2014 20:31:14 +0100
Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know if Gentoo will provide a USE flag to enable this if
> desired?
> 
> https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-mission-and-w3c-eme/

It may not even be possible to enable it in Gentoo builds or it may be
possible only in firefox-bin builds.  From that article (which is by
Mozilla's CTO, by the way),

  Mozilla will distribute the sandbox alongside Firefox, and we are
  working on deterministic builds that will allow developers to use a
  sandbox compiled on their own machine with the CDM as an alternative.

IMO they *must* make that possible.  Otherwise the sandbox itself has
to be a binary blob, which would negate much of reason for having a
sandbox in the first place -- it would only be an alleged sandbox.

He also says,

  As plugins today, the CDM itself will be distributed by Adobe and
  will not be included in Firefox.

So if/when Gentoo gets around to making the CDM available, ISTM it will
almost certainly be a package separate from Firefox.  If so, maybe
there will be a USE flag for Firefox which pulls the CDM in as a
dependency, but that flag should be off by default (again IMO).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and Adobe's DRM plugin

[Mick]

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On Thursday 15 May 2014 22:55:45 »Q« wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2014 20:31:14 +0100
> 
> Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone know if Gentoo will provide a USE flag to enable this if
> > desired?
> > 
> > https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-mission-and-w3c-em
> > e/
> 
> It may not even be possible to enable it in Gentoo builds or it may be
> possible only in firefox-bin builds.  From that article (which is by
> Mozilla's CTO, by the way),
> 
>   Mozilla will distribute the sandbox alongside Firefox, and we are
>   working on deterministic builds that will allow developers to use a
>   sandbox compiled on their own machine with the CDM as an alternative.
> 
> IMO they *must* make that possible.  Otherwise the sandbox itself has
> to be a binary blob, which would negate much of reason for having a
> sandbox in the first place -- it would only be an alleged sandbox.
> 
> He also says,
> 
>   As plugins today, the CDM itself will be distributed by Adobe and
>   will not be included in Firefox.
> 
> So if/when Gentoo gets around to making the CDM available, ISTM it will
> almost certainly be a package separate from Firefox.  If so, maybe
> there will be a USE flag for Firefox which pulls the CDM in as a
> dependency, but that flag should be off by default (again IMO).

Yes, I'd rather that it was implemented in this way so that we have to opt in 
for allowing DRM on our machines, rather than having to opt out.

It is worrying to see that HTML5 is being usurped by the likes of Adobe and 
their media industry friends, as if adobe-flash was not bad enough.
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Regards,
Mick

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