[progman32]

I find this part puzzling. I don't have to give a pencil manufacturer rights of any sort to art I make with their product. A notebook seller cares not for such rights either, nor does a musical instrument company. The fact that Firefox seems insistent upon securing content rights suggests they're interested in using the content for things other than local browsing, which I find rather unfortunate. I'd gladly buy a support license for the browser specifically but Mozilla's structure seems to prevent that.

[drdaeman]

Or their legal team is incompetent. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

[gloxkiqcza]

If there’s a financial incentive involved I think it’s perfectly reasonable to incline towards malice.

[wtallis]

Mozilla's legal team is probably competent, but working under unreasonable constraints where their initial advice to the effect of "don't spy on your users" has been rejected and now they need to find a way to shield Mozilla from legal consequences of a decision that their users won't like.

[therealpygon]

Or, “Lawyers will lawyer.” That said, there is room for both.