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FirefoxOS-Based Matchstick Project Ends; All Money To Be Refunded

Posted by samzenpus on from the end-of-the-line dept.

Kohenkatz writes: Matchstick, a project built on FirefoxOS that aimed to compete with Google's Chromecast, which was initially funded on Kickstarter, is shutting down and will be refunding all pledges. In a post to Kickstarter backers today, they announced that this decision was due to the difficulty of implementing the DRM components that are necessary for access to a lot of paid content. Rather than drag out the project on an unknown schedule, they have decided to end the project.

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  1. Good for them by grilled-cheese · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This would be an excellent example of Mozilla not being willing to compromise their principles to satisfy the media conglomerates obsession with DRM. Sadly however, I'm not sure who would be surprised by this.