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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by chii on Saturday July 08, 2017 @02:39AM (#14724418)
> If it's not standard DRM, then it's Apple DRM and Windows DRM... like we already have.

which is fragmentation, and bad for businesses that want DRM, but don't want to _pay_ the cost of fragmentation. By adding it to an open standard, they no longer need to deal with end fragmentation (which causes end user a bad experience). But the solution was never to standardize on DRM, but to standardize on _non-DRM_ formats! The pirates can obtain content regardless - DRM only hurts consumers in the long run.

Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by icebraining on Saturday July 08, 2017 @05:02AM (#14724707)
This standard doesn't actually define any DRM formats, each EME module supports whatever formats it wants.