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		calgoo on June 28, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: #CancelNetflix: It's time to fight DRM with your w... If this is passed, can't we just grab the firefox source and delete the drm crap and fork the HTML5 specs? To hell with the W3C, we just fork and route around the problem?

jiggy2011 on June 28, 2013 | [–]

You don't even need to do that. Simply don't install DRM systems on your computer. The HTML5 specs do not mandate installation of any DRM whatsoever.

pyalot2 on June 28, 2013 | [–]

The firefox source won't contain the DRM crap. It is such that Mozilla cannot support it. Microsoft and Google (browser vendors) are colluding to freeze out Mozilla.

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