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squidbidness··on Mozilla Launches a New Firefox Version Without DRM Support
But that can cut both ways. If having DRM on a computer at all is offensive to a user, than having a standard DRM method can make it all the harder to avoid.

And I don't think it's a very strong argument that fewer companies rolling their own DRM will be such a great thing, and I'd be surprised if DRM opposers would be relieved that fewer companies are rolling their own DRM if it means its harder to avoid ANYONE putting DRM on their machine. It's like a choice between letting independent, small-time thieves into your home, or having the Mafia allowed to organize, with the blessing or apathy of the general community. The first may be a more dispersed, less coherent adversary, and it might be harder to be confident that their crimes are high quality. The second will act like they already own your house and that they are affording you the privilege of living their under their "protection". But at least with the first, when everyone's not already used to them owning the place and aren't intimidated into accepting them, you can rely on some widespread denunciation of the robbery.

Standardized, widespread DRM is much more like these companies and committees acting like they already own our computers, that how we use them and how we connect them to internet is a privilege we enjoy only at their direction.

squidbidness··on Mozilla Launches a New Firefox Version Without DRM Support
The insinuation that opposing DRM has mainly to do with wanting piracy to be easy is a common straw-man. There are many who oppose piracy who also oppose DRM, for very compelling reasons that aren't just limited to edge cases or using obscure devices. For such people, it would be worse if more companies used DRM because it would mean losing the fight against DRM. More and more people who don't care about the issue will be used to dealing with it, and it will be seen as harmless when it's more widespread and ordinary users aren't bothered by it. That is very disheartening to those of us who find DRM seriously threatening to the kinds of grass-roots technological and social innovations that make us so excited about the internet.
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