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pippy on March 6, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Netflix disables use of the Chrome developer conso...

Instead of developers throwing their toys out the cot, try to imagine a conversion along the lines of:

MPAA executive: we need to lobby W3C more to get DRM!

Netflix: why?

MPAA executive: because they'll steal our content!

Netflix: no need! we've disabled the developer console so they can't steal your content!

MPAA executive: That sounds good!

It's nice having a "yeah but you can do X" retort to the people making these decisions.

The ideologically driven 'but the web should be oooopen' argument won't go far.

nilved on March 6, 2014 | [–]

> The ideologically driven 'but the web should be oooopen' argument won't go far.

lmao, which site am i on again?

hayksaakian on March 6, 2014 | [–]

the alternative is "don't negotiate with terrorists"

but given that Netflix got where it is today on the back of our broken copyright system, I don't for see that happening anytime soon.

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