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by coryfklein 1972 days ago
Users will balk if you call your application a web browser and it doesn't stream video from most of the major video providers.
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There is a big difference between playing some mp4 / webm on a website and Netflix, if every random dev could implement a DRM for Netflix most likely DRM would be useless.
To be fair, given that anything that hits any streaming service is ripped and available to pirating within an hour, DRM has proven to be useless. It doesn't stop pirates at all but it does annoy actual paying customers.