Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have two weeks to appeal

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Re: Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have two weeks to appeal

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Post by jandrese » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 2:50 PM UTC

AnssiH wrote: post #106

zamalek wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Option 1 is the best because playing DRM content should be Netflix's problem. By not making it a standard we'll make sure that Neflix never, ever comes to Linux. That guarantees that proprietary operating systems, browsers and hardware will always be prevalent. > By making it a standard it means that we'll never, ever get rid of it. and were standards. NPAPI was a quasi-standard. Black-and-white worldviews are ofte…

> By not making it a standard we'll make sure that Neflix never, ever comes to Linux. Netflix already works on Linux, with Chrome and Firefox: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742 It uses EME with closed-source CDMs bundled with the browser (Chrome) or downloaded by the browser (Firefox).

My understanding is that it's using basically what the W3C is now considering. The browser manufacturers already decided on this months ago and implemented it. Now the question is if it becomes part of the standard so there aren't annoying differences between each browser.

Re: Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have two weeks to appeal

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Post by jopsen » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 7:24 PM UTC

syshum wrote: post #198

jopsen wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To some extend perhaps... One of the key arguments when Mozilla decided to implement EME was that the crappy-proprietary-code could be sandboxed by firefox to ensure that it doesn't infect a system with malware, spy on users, etc. From a security perspective it's light years better than flash and other crappy plugins.

And when they did that, the Content providers responded by saying "Ok then we will only allow you access to low quality content" i.e you can only stream upto 1280x720 resolution on firefox, no 1080 content, and no 4K content.. Today that has low impact, in a few years that situation will be untenable for FF and they will be "forced" to cave once again in order to appease users that do not care about privacy or securi…

But we life to fight another day.

Don't forget that vendors like Netflix aren't proponents of DRM, it complicates their streaming architecture and costs a lot of money.

In a future where Netflix and other streaming services makes up a large part of the profit for content owners, we might see DRM disappearing.

Look at how Apple was able to sell DRM free music because their volume was high.

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