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Remove the Widevine requirement

Status: Live Idea
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1. One of your biggest competitors, Youtube Music, does not need widevine to work inside my browser, so they do not force me to install closed source things on my Linux desktop.

 

2. People can already bypass Widevine DRM and fetch your OGGs without any encryption on them, and you likely know this.

 

So what is the point of forcing people to install closed source things? No, seriously, tell me your reasoning behind keeping Widevine. At this point I can only assume that you have to keep it because of some legal contract with a publisher, but perhaps it is time to renegotiate given that your competitor doesn't use Widevine and has pretty much the same music library?