Major labels to allow the over-90s to bypass DRM

Posted by Dave CollinsGeneral

On March 13th, YouTube are stopping support for older browsers.

The following browsers will be impacted by the change:

Any browser older than Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0
Any browser older than Mozilla Firefox 3.0
Any browser older than Google Chrome 4.0
Any browser older than Safari 3.0+

Note that users of these browsers will still be able to watch YouTube videos, but some new features may not be supported.

Quiz time.

Question: What’s the only thing you do in YouTube?

(a) Watch videos
(b) Other

The bigger question: Will Google have the power to move these people to a new technology?

(a) No
(b) Probably not

The biggest question: How many people (1) use these old browsers (2) use YouTube and (3) know how to install a new web browser?

(a) Less than five
(b) Less than ten

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