{"id":66694,"date":"2014-05-15T14:19:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T12:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=66694"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:41:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:41:27","slug":"mozilla-cant-fight-implementation-of-online-video-drm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mozilla-cant-fight-implementation-of-online-video-drm\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla can&#8217;t fight implementation of online video DRM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Digital Rights Management<\/strong> (DRM), which is already coming to <a title=\"Download Internet Explorer 9 for Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/internet-explorer-9.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Internet Explorer<\/a>, <a title=\"Download Safari for Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/safari.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Safari<\/a> and <a title=\"Download Google Chrome for Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/google-chrome.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Chrome<\/a>, will soon be included in <a title=\"Download Firefox for Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/firefox.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Firefox<\/a>. This means implementing closed-source code for online video, which Mozilla disagrees with, but feels forced into using.<\/p>\n<p>This DRM, called a Content Decryption Module (CDM), affects services like <strong>Netflix<\/strong>, <strong>Amazon Video<\/strong>, and <strong>Hulu<\/strong>. It was agreed upon between Microsoft, Google and content providers like Netflix in 2013. If Firefox would choose not to include DRM, you wouldn&#8217;t be able to view this kind of video from the browser, forcing you to use a different one. This would obviously threaten Firefox&#8217;s user base and its competitiveness with Chrome and IE.<\/p>\n<p>Starting with desktop versions, Mozilla will include this DRM (from Adobe) in Firefox, but it&#8217;s keen to minimize some of the negative effects on users. Unlike other browsers, Firefox will be implementing the CDM in a &#8216;sandbox&#8217;. The code of the sandbox will be <strong>open source<\/strong>, and will contain the CDM. The sandbox means that the CDM will not have access to your hard drive &#8211; it will give sites like Netflix a &#8216;unique identifier&#8217; so that you can view the content, but it will not reveal any additional information about you or your device.<\/p>\n<p>The implication here is that Internet Explorer, Safari, and Chrome will indeed send more information to video providers that identifies you and your device.<\/p>\n<p>This DRM system will give services like Hulu more control over how you view video, and on what devices. It is also an attempt to curtail piracy, although the industry&#8217;s yet to come up with a silver bullet solution for that, as pirates and hackers eventually find a way around DRM.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Jonathan on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathanriggall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@jonathanriggall<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/adblock-plus-memory-hog\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adblock Plus is a memory hog in Chrome and Firefox<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/mozilla-firefox-will-not-become-a-mess-of-sponsored-content\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mozilla: Firefox will not become a mess of sponsored content<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/internet-explorer-windows-xp-emergency-update\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FMicrosoft issues emergency Internet Explorer update, even for XP users<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Rights Management (DRM), which is already coming to Internet Explorer, Safari and Google Chrome, will soon be included in Firefox. This means implementing closed-source code for online video, which Mozilla disagrees with, but feels forced into using. This DRM, called a Content Decryption Module (CDM), affects services like Netflix, Amazon Video, and Hulu. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mozilla-cant-fight-implementation-of-online-video-drm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mozilla can&#8217;t fight implementation of online video DRM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-66694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330748,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66694\/revisions\/330748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66694"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=66694"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=66694"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=66694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}