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From a balancing test standpoint, if you want a technological solution to people copying your work then I think you should not be allowed to claim copyright protection of your work. Pick a legal or technical solution to unauthorized copying, not both.
This is the only reason you can't watch Netflix on FreeBSD using chromium or Firefox, too.
> For the last 2 years I’ve been working on a web browser that now cannot be completed because Google, the creators of the open source browser Chrome, won’t allow DRM in an open source project. It can too be completed, you're just not gonna have DRM'd content. I have a browser that has the same problem, and I just leave pages that can't do video playback (which doesn't include YouTube because they use WebM). There's…
Youtube has DRM and has nothing to do with WebM. It's just that not all the content is DRM-ed.
Sorry, for those of us not privy to how Widevine works, what's the problem exactly? What do you need Google's approval for and why?
Bonus DRM: If your license is not "the most certified" your browser/player will play only shitty/low quality versions of the video. There are other goodies of course like not being able to play the content offline.
Sorry, for those of us not privy to how Widevine works, what's the problem exactly? What do you need Google's approval for and why?
>As far as I’m aware, Widevine is the only available DRM for a Chromium-based browser, especially so for Electron.
The blame for this sits squarely on the w3c for their efforts in trying to replace flash by letting the content companies dictate standards for encrypted playback. If they had held fast, we could have forced the companies to do their key management in something like WebAssembly and avoided this gatekeeping mess.
The blame for this sits squarely on the w3c for their efforts in trying to replace flash by letting the content companies dictate standards for encrypted playback. If they had held fast, we could have forced the companies to do their key management in something like WebAssembly and avoided this gatekeeping mess.
Sorry, for those of us not privy to how Widevine works, what's the problem exactly? What do you need Google's approval for and why?
Widevine is a DRM scheme. You need a license and information from Google to decode it without breaking the DRM.
So google won't let you use there DRM. Firefox doesn't support this. Don't allow DRM sources hulu/netflix otherwise make a deal with each company. Your problem is with the video providers not a third party who has a solution you want to use.
Firefox does support either exactly this or something compatible.