Mozilla today announced that it will reluctantly implement the HTML5 DRM standard in its Firefox browser.
With more and more copyrighted content being streamed over the Internet, rights holders have long been worried that there is no standardized way to wrap a DRM solution around these streams in HTML5 without resorting to using Flash or Silverlight. A while ago, Microsoft and Google decided to implement the somewhat controversial W3C Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) that define how browsers handle DRMed content in HTML5 in their browsers.
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