Firefox Browser to Enable Controversial HTML5 DRM to Stop Piracy

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 of Controversial proprietary Content Decryption Module, finally in recent announcement Mozilla has decided to adopt DRM in HTML5 in an effort to keep Hollywood happy and to give hard competition to major web browsers, or otherwise people will just shift to those other browsers.[quote]"We very much want to see a different system. Unfortunately, Mozilla alone cannot change the industry on DRM at this point. In the past Firefox has changed the industry, and we intend to do so again. Today, however, we cannot cause the change we want regarding DRM." Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal said in a blog post.[/quote]The Mozilla is partnering with Adobe to provide the Content Decryption Module (CDM). Technically, Mozilla will provide APIs in Firefox browser to enable Web content to manipulate DRM-protected content, and Adobe will provide a closed source Content Decryption Module (CDM) for content decryption at user-end. Full Article