Thoughts

When designing Phoenix, one of the toughest decisions I had to make was in regards to DRM content. I went back and forth on this constantly - but I ultimately came to my senses & made the decision not to support DRM content. I’d like to explain my reasoning as to why, as well as provide my general thoughts on DRM as a whole. What is DRM? Image by Shankar Raman under Public Domain DRM, as Mozilla so elegantly puts it, is “technology that enables online video and audio services to enforce that the content they provide is used in accordance with their requirements”. It stands for “Digital Rights Management” - but it’s also more accurately referred to as Digital Restrictions Management. ...