Update on Digital Rights Management and Firefox

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on May 13, 2015 7:08 AM EDT
The Mozilla Blog; By Denelle Dixon-Thayer
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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 and the closed nature of DRM. As we explained then, 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’s currently the only way to watch a sought-after segment of content.

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