{"id":8901,"date":"2015-05-12T08:21:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T15:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/?p=8901"},"modified":"2015-05-28T13:43:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T20:43:56","slug":"update-on-digital-rights-management-and-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blogarchive\/blog\/2015\/05\/12\/update-on-digital-rights-management-and-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Digital Rights Management and Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago, we announced the start of efforts to implement support for a component in Firefox that would allow content wrapped in Digital Rights Management (DRM) to be played within the HTML5 video tag. This was a hard decision because of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/mission\/\">Mission<\/a> and the closed nature of DRM. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/14\/drm-and-the-challenge-of-serving-users\/\">As we explained then<\/a>, we are enabling DRM in order to provide our users with the features they require in a browser and allow them to continue accessing premium video content. We don&#8217;t believe DRM is a desirable market solution, but it\u2019s currently the only way to watch a sought-after segment of content.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Firefox includes an integration with the Adobe Content Decryption Module (CDM) to playback DRM-wrapped content. The CDM will be downloaded from Adobe shortly after you upgrade or install Firefox and will be activated when you first interact with a site that uses Adobe CDM. Premium video services, including Netflix, have started <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/firefox\/38.0\/releasenotes\/\" target=\"_blank\">testing this solution in Firefox<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Because DRM is a &#8216;black-box&#8217; technology that isn\u2019t open source, we have designed a <a href=\"https:\/\/hacks.mozilla.org\/2014\/05\/reconciling-mozillas-mission-and-w3c-eme\/\" target=\"_blank\">security sandbox<\/a> that sits around the CDM. We can\u2019t be sure how other browsers have handled the \u201cblack-box\u201d issue but a sandbox provides a necessary layer of security. \u00a0Additionally, we\u2019ve also introduced the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/kb\/enable-drm\" target=\"_blank\">ability to remove the CDM from your copy of Firefox<\/a>. We believe that these are important security and choice mechanisms that allow us to introduce this technology in a manner that lessens the negative impacts of integrating this type of black-box.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/FX3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8902\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/FX3-252x100.png\" alt=\"FX3\" width=\"252\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also recognize that not everybody wants DRM, so we are also offering a separate <a href=\"http:\/\/download.cdn.mozilla.net\/pub\/firefox\/releases\/38.0.1\/win32-EME-free\/\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox download without the CDM<\/a> enabled by default for those users who would rather not have the CDM downloaded to their browser on install.<\/p>\n<p>As we\u2019ve discussed, DRM is a complicated issue. We want our users to understand its implications and we have developed a <a href=\"https:\/\/stacy.makes.org\/thimble\/MTUxMzI5MjI4OA==\/what-is-drm\" target=\"_blank\">teaching kit<\/a> to introduce DRM, its challenges, and why some content publishers use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago, we announced the start of efforts to implement support for a component in Firefox that would allow content wrapped in Digital Rights Management (DRM) to be played &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blogarchive\/blog\/2015\/05\/12\/update-on-digital-rights-management-and-firefox\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":563,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Update on Digital Rights Management and Firefox - 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