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

Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by syshum on Saturday July 08, 2017 @08:40AM (#14725211)

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 security

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by jopsen on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @03:24PM (#14755740)

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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