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ciao -------------------- BornAgain [email protected] Nodo su wireless comunitaria Ninux.org http://map.ninux.org/select/reggiocalbornagain/ Il giorno 15/mag/2014, alle ore 19.08, Massimiliano CARNEMOLLA ha scritto: > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support > Digital Restrictions Management > Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 02:22:33 -0400 > From: Free Software Foundation <[email protected]> > Reply-To: Free Software Foundation <[email protected]> > To: Massimiliano CARNEMOLLA <[email protected]> > > You can read this post online at https://u.fsf.org/xk. > > FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital > Restrictions Management > > BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Wednesday, May 14th, 2014 — In response to > Mozilla's announcement that it is reluctantly adopting DRM in its Firefox Web > browser, Free Software Foundation executive director John Sullivan made the > following statement: > > "Only a week after the International Day Against DRM, Mozilla has announced > that it will partner with proprietary software company Adobe to implement > support for Web-based Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) in its Firefox > browser, using Encrypted Media Extensions (EME). > > The Free Software Foundation is deeply disappointed in > Mozilla's announcement. The decision compromises important principles in > order to alleviate misguided fears about loss of browser marketshare. It > allies Mozilla with a company hostile to the free software movement and to > Mozilla's own fundamental ideals. > > Although Mozilla will not directly ship Adobe's proprietary DRM plugin, it > will, as an official feature, encourage Firefox users to install the plugin > from Adobe when presented with media that requests DRM. We agree with Cory > Doctorow that there is no meaningful distinction between 'installing DRM' and > 'installing code that installs DRM.' > > We recognize that Mozilla is doing this reluctantly, and we trust these words > coming from Mozilla much more than we do when they come from Microsoft or > Amazon. At the same time, nearly everyone who implements DRM says they are > forced to do it, and this lack of accountability is how the practice sustains > itself. Mozilla's announcement today unfortunately puts it -- in this regard > -- in the same category as its proprietary competitors. > > Unlike those proprietary competitors, Mozilla is going to great lengths to > reduce some of the specific harms of DRM by attempting to 'sandbox' the > plugin. But this approach cannot solve the fundamental ethical problems with > proprietary software, or the issues that inevitably arise when proprietary > software is installed on a user's computer. > > In the announcement, Mitchell Baker asserts that Mozilla's hands were tied. > But she then goes on to actively praise Adobe's "value" and suggests that > there is some kind of necessary balance between DRM and user freedom. > > There is nothing necessary about DRM, and to hear Mozilla praising Adobe -- > the company who has been and continues to be a vicious opponent of the free > software movement and the free Web -- is shocking. With this partnership in > place, we worry about Mozilla's ability and willingness to criticize Adobe's > practices going forward. > > We understand that Mozilla is afraid of losing users. Cory Doctorow points > out that they have produced no evidence to substantiate this fear or made any > effort to study the situation. More importantly, popularity is not an end in > itself. This is especially true for the Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit with > an ethical mission. In the past, Mozilla has distinguished itself and > achieved success by protecting the freedom of its users and explaining the > importance of that freedom: including publishing Firefox's source code, > allowing others to make modifications to it, and sticking to Web standards in > the face of attempts to impose proprietary extensions. > > Today's decision turns that calculus on its head, devoting Mozilla resources > to delivering users to Adobe and hostile media distributors. In the process, > Firefox is losing the identity which set it apart from its proprietary > competitors -- Internet Explorer and Chrome -- both of which are implementing > EME in an even worse fashion. > > Undoubtedly, some number of users just want restricted media > like Netflix to work in Firefox, and they will be upset if it doesn't. This > is unsurprising, since the majority of the world is not yet familiar with the > ethical issues surrounding proprietary software. This debate was, and is, a > high-profile opportunity to introduce these concepts to users and ask them to > stand together in some tough decisions. > > To see Mozilla compromise without making any public effort to rally users > against this supposed "forced choice" is doubly disappointing. They should > reverse this decision. But whether they do or do not, we call on them to join > us by devoting as many of their extensive resources to permanently > eliminating DRM as they are now devoting to supporting it. The FSF will have > more to say and do on this in the coming days. For now, users who are > concerned about this issue should: > > Write to Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal and let him know that you oppose DRM. > Mozilla made this decision in a misguided appeal to its userbase; it needs to > hear in clear and reasoned terms from the users who feel this as a betrayal. > Ask Mozilla what it is going to do to actually solve the DRM problem that has > created this false forced choice. > > Join our effort to stop EME approval at the W3C. While today's announcement > makes it even more obvious that W3C rejection of EME will not stop its > implementation, it also makes it clear that W3C can fearlessly reject EME to > send a message that DRM is not a part of the vision of a free Web. > > Use a version of Firefox without the EME code: Since its source code is > available under a license allowing anyone to modify and redistribute it under > a different name, we expect versions without EME to be made available, and > you should use those instead. We will list them in the Free Software > Directory. > > Donate to support the work of the Free Software > Foundation and our Defective by Design campaign to actually end DRM. Until > it's completely gone, Mozilla and others will be constantly tempted to > capitulate, and users will be pressured to continue using some proprietary > software. If not us, give to another group fighting against digital > restrictions." > > References > > What is DRM? > https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/05/14/drm-and-the-challenge-of-serving-users/ > https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-mission-and-w3c-eme/ > https://defectivebydesign.org/dbd-condemns-drm-in-html > https://fsf.org/news/coalition-against-drm-in-html > https://defectivebydesign.org/oscar-awarded-w3c-in-the-hollyweb > Media Contact > > John Sullivan > Executive Director > Free Software Foundation > +1 (617) 542 5942 > [email protected] > > About the Free Software Foundation > > The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting > computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer > programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) > software -- particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants > -- and free documentation for free software. The FSF also > helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in > the use of software, and its Web sites, located at fsf.org and gnu.org, are > an important source of information about GNU/Linux. Donations to support the > FSF's work can be made at https://donate.fsf.org. Its headquarters are in > Boston, MA, USA. > > -- > Follow us on GNU social | Subscribe to our blogs via RSS | Join us as an > associate member > > Sent from the Free Software Foundation, > > 51 Franklin Street > Fifth Floor > Boston, Massachusetts 02110-1335 > United States > Unsubscribe from this mailing list. > > Stop all email from the Free Software Foundation, including Defective by > Design, and the Free Software Supporter newsletter. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > [email protected] > http://ml.ninux.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
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