The media content creators are concerned with the people who get the content without even paying a penny for it, violating the policies of various organizations. The upcoming versions of the firefox browser are equipped with Closed Source Digital Rights management from adobe. The company stated that " The major reason is to support commercial video streams". Now the companies won't need to rely upon third party plugins like silverlight to pass down copyright protected movies and videos to your browser. Now they will operate under DRM right into the web.
All other web-clients like Chrome, Internet Explorer etc. are supporting Encrypted Media Extensions in them. Mozilla has agreed to adopt DRM in HTML 5 to be in competition with other web clients.
Mozilla will enrich its browser with Application Programming Interface to deliver DRM protected content and in partnership with adobe- the firm will provide Content Decryption Module at user end.
What is DRM?
DRM is a mechanism to enforce hard restrictions to users' media through various conditions and controls are imposed on software and hardware.
It is only possible iff some parts of the computers are kept secret from users, in that case users' will not get enough freedom as Internet provides.
The major goal of DRM is to create a framework that will cut-down the level of piracy that is beneficial for the creators of Media Content but harmful for user's freedom.
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