> The problem is that there are other Flash sites besides Youtube that > these custom Gnash modifications and MiniTube do not help. I like > gaming so I go to IGN. Flash video. I watch stuff on > GameTrailers. Flash video. I keep up with sports on ESPN. Flash video.
WatchVideo supports several sites other than YouTube. I have never visited the sites you listed, I don't know if it would be difficult to support them. > Anything and everything is still serving Flash. I browse without any Flash implementation, with JavaScript disabled on sites where I don't need to use it, and I very rarely meet useful Flash (most is for ads, most of the rest are embedded YouTube videos). "Anything and everything" suggests it being something more important. > I would LOVE like the > rest of you to have everything HTML5 but content providers like > plugins like Flash and Silverlight because they can DRM protect their > streams. HTML5 does not do that and even if it did, it would violate > the FSF's many policies about wanting everything free and open. It's possible for free software to implement DRM, e.g. Okular has an option to not allow actions disabled by PDF's DRM, the trivially breakable worksheet protection in LibreOffice is similar. It's different with e.g. libdvdcss, since laws like DMCA might restrict sharing it. Having a free software implementation of a DRM scheme makes it easily possible to do things which its authors wanted to restrict. (Well-known examples in cryptography show that access to source code is not needed to reverse engineer encryption algorithms.) Since DRM works by allowing things which are for programs equivalent with the things which its authors want to restrict, it's obviously broken and such implementations will be made. > The FSF would rather content providers not run a business, make a > profit, and pay the salaries of their employees Any business based on making artificial restrictions is harmful for the society and should not be done. There are enough real problems to solve. (Another problem is that the whole idea of having big content providers makes problems which are unnecessary when the public is allowed to share the works.)
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