{"id":1488,"date":"2015-05-12T17:02:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T16:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2015-05-12T17:02:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T16:02:19","slug":"update-on-digital-rights-management-and-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/2015\/05\/12\/update-on-digital-rights-management-and-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Digital Rights Management and Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 Mission <\/a>and the closed nature of DRM. 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’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

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 testing this solution in Firefox.<\/a><\/p>\n

Because DRM is a ‘black-box’ technology that isn’t open source, we have designed a security sandbox\u00a0<\/a>that sits around the CDM. We can\u2019t be sure how other browsers have handled the \u201cblack-box\u201d issue but a sand box provides a necessary layer of security.\u00a0 Additionally, we’ve also introduced the 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

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We also recognise that not everybody wants DRM, so we are also offering a separate 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

As we’ve discussed, DRM is a complicated issue. We want our users to understand its implications and we have developed a teaching kit<\/a> to introduce DRM, its challenges, and why some content publishers use it.<\/p>\n

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