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Good. DRM should be external to the browser, not integrated into it.

DRM is mostly security theater anyway. Until a few years ago, the Spotify client just left unencrypted mp3s cached locally. And they stopped DRMing music over a decade ago. People are willing to pay a reasonable price for first party content.

If a company insist on DRM, then they should be on their own.

If we make it too easy, then they will just use it everywhere.

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Spotify will not load in a browser without a DRM plugin

Yes, but that is fairly recent! Did anyone even notice? For years, you could siphon every song you listened to and save it locally. But did it affect anything? I did it for a little while, but then found it wasn't worth the trouble.

It affected Spotify enough to engineer a solution to stop it.

And five years isn't "fairly recent".

One would also note Spotify is a failing business, and it was failing even harder then.

The majority of Spotify's lifetime there was NO DRM, and ripping it was easy.

The majority of users had no idea and it didn't affect them at all. Nor is there any evidence that it had any impact on Spotify's business.

Recent? I signed up 4 years ago and this has always been the case.

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