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Comment Re:Missing the point; it's about not enabling (Score 1) 403

So what?
People are pirating. People are pirating despite DRM.
People are willing to pay a certain price, which is more than they pay, when they are pirating. So try to find the price people are willing to pay, that's the best you can get.

The whole DRM is just blaming the piracy to another company. The publisher blames google, google blames adobe, just to have another scapegoat. If one of the companys doesn't act, the content provider will blame this company. This does not mean, that there is no piracy, if every link in the chain implements the DRM as good as possible, it just means nobody can tell "hey, i am not playing along".

Comment Re:If Mozilla Foundation is corrupt, use Pale Moon (Score 1) 403

> Pale Moon has a 64-bit version. Firefox doesn't.
still wrong. Why is everybody still telling this?

$ file firefox
firefox: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, BuildID[sha1]=e06519b9e2b09c1b4e56b7ad11afc0d84e1b5aad, stripped

Comment Re:Corporate directed not volunteer direct ... (Score 1) 403

The problem: As long as other big players support DRM, the browser where "i can watch videos" will get more users, the others less.

One good thing would be to say: Fuck DRM, we are making a browser as we like it, if we're the only users thats no problem for open source software.

On the other hand, this would mean for users, who want to consume content, that they need to use other possibly even non-free browsers to do so. If mozilla supports this DRM, they may be able to influence it, i.e. force companies to accept a sandbox around the DRM. So they might help to keep the problem small.

So of course you can fork, but you will gain nothing. The sandbox for DRM does not hurt, if you do not use it. What hurts is, that all major browser support DRM now, so that the publishers can use it. Assume i.e. 75% of the browser market would not support DRM, then we might get a free web. But if 30% do not support it, the 30% will shrink as users will use other browsers, at least to watch videos.

So mozilla may be right about this. But they are wrong, as they should be a good example. But the next big opensource browser is chromium, which will support DRM, because google wants to use DRM (i.e. for play videos)

Comment What exactly is the right to be forgotten? (Score 1) 370

Is it there in reallife?
A right to be forgotten means, means by negation, there is no law, which forces people to remember you.
So, there IS NO such law, not online not in "real life".

You will be forgotten, online and offline. As long as you're not interesting. If you are, you will not be forgotten. Do you really think, snowden will ever be forgotten offline? You do not need to go to a newspaper archive in 20 years to remember snowden, this name will remain for long in our society, if not even in history books.
Was Barbara Streisand forgotten?

Just forget it. If you want to be forgotten, keep quiet. People may or may not forget you, but if you insist on being forgotten, you will be remembered.

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