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Nope. DRM is about accepting unsafe binary blobs into my browser as a standard. Completely different from "encryption".

That's like saying infecting everyone with ebola is "medical research".



I'm not a fan of DRM either, but it's hardly Ebola. It's more like a persistent rash.

Well, except maybe in the case of Sony music CDs.


> Well, except maybe in the case of Sony music CDs.

That's the problem. My mom taught me not to drink from unknown binary blobs because you can never be sure what's in there.




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