Re:DRM Non-Aggression on the Table at W3C
by JoshTriplett on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @06:51PM
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This seems like a good idea in principle. However, the people most likely to bring a DMCA suit are not participating members of the W3C and thus not subject to this pact. The major media production houses can sit back, let others build EME for them, use it, and wield the DMCA over that use.
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Widevine (Google) and PlayReady (Microsoft) are the top EME DRM providers. Google and Microsoft are both on the EME working group.
The critical question is whether rightsholders can use the DMCA (or local equivalent) to sue someone for circumventing DRM technology that isn't their own.
If not, if the only party capable of enforcing anticircumvention is the DRM vendor itself, then this could be very effective.