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Widevine is a proprietary digital rights management (DRM) system that is included in most major web browsers and in the operating systems Android and iOS.It is used by streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu etc., to allow authorized users to view media while preventing them from creating unauthorized copies.
In December 2013, Tetzchner founded the company Vivaldi Technologies and launched the online community site vivaldi.net, which includes a forum, blogs, chat, photo sharing and a free email service named Vivaldi Webmail. [11] On 27 January 2015, Vivaldi Technologies announced the release of its new web browser Vivaldi.
In August 2005, [10] the GNUzilla project adopted the GNU IceWeasel name for a rebranded distribution of Firefox that made no references to nonfree plugins. [ 10 ] The term "ice weasel " appeared earlier in a line which cartoonist Matt Groening fictionally attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche : "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and ...
Vivaldi Technologies' main product is the Vivaldi Browser. The browser was created in part to cater to power users after Opera Software opted to abandon its own browser engine Presto in favor of WebKit (and later Blink), thereby dropping support of many of its features.
[150] [151] Calling it "a difficult and uncomfortable step", Andreas Gal of Mozilla explained that future versions of Firefox would remain open source but ship with a sandbox designed to run a content decryption module developed by Adobe, [150] later it was replaced with Widevine module from Google which is much more widely adopted by content ...
PlayReady competes with other proprietary DRM schemes and even more with DRM-free software, most notably Apple's FairPlay introduced in iTunes and QuickTime. There are several other DRM schemes that are competing to become the dominant DRM technology (e.g. Widevine).
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Blink is a browser engine developed as part of the free and open-source Chromium project. Blink is by far the most-used browser engine, due to the market share dominance of Google Chrome and the fact that many other browsers are based on the Chromium code.