Firefox Browser to Enable Controversial HTML5 DRM to Stop Piracy
May 16, 2014
The Music Industry, Movie Studios and other companies who create media contents are always concerned with people getting access to their content without paying for it. Last year, On Request of Big Tech companies such as Microsoft, Google and Netflix, The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) defined a new API (Application Programming Interface) called ' Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) ' in HTML5 to aid web-based video services in restricting the rights of users who utilize their services. Now the companies won't need to rely on third-party plugins like Flash and Silverlight to deliver copy-protected movies and TV shows to your browser. Instead, now they have same capabilities of Digital rights management (DRM) right into the fabrics of the web. All other major modern web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari are supporting Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) within the web browser since last year, except Mozilla Firefox . Even after criticizing the use...
