Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw...
by librarian42 on Saturday July 08, 2017 @07:53AM
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> i want DRM to be a difficult and cumbersome stack to use
Exactly. Even flash plugins are too easy, really, so long as flash is ubiquitous. NOW would be the time to hit it, as flash is less common (almost completely absent on mobile) and silverlight is deprecated.
Imagine if Apple and Microsoft and Real had agreed on an easy and ubiquitous plugin framework for music DRM.
We would still be dealing with near-universal DRM for music today.
Exactly. Even flash plugins are too easy, really, so long as flash is ubiquitous. NOW would be the time to hit it, as flash is less common (almost completely absent on mobile) and silverlight is deprecated.
Imagine if Apple and Microsoft and Real had agreed on an easy and ubiquitous plugin framework for music DRM.
We would still be dealing with near-universal DRM for music today.