Tim Berners-Lee Officially Supports DRM in HTML

Re:Tim Berners-Lee Officially Supports DRM in HTML by ginko on Thursday July 13, 2017 @09:53AM (#14761198)

>Yes and that's why they're adding DRM support to HTML5, so you don't need to and the browser you're using can act as the endpoint allowing access to the content.

This still means you'll need a specific browser. Open-source browsers will likely not work anymore.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee Officially Supports DRM in HTML by lordlimecat on Thursday July 13, 2017 @10:48AM (#14761696)

If Firefox and Chromium don't work with EME I will go buy a a hat, and eat it.

I'd hazard the folks who truly get locked out, users of more ideological browsers on more fringe linux distros, already were not using flash or silverlight, because those already required a proprietary blob of code. And frankly they're probably not interested in content that is locked down.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee Officially Supports DRM in HTML by kuschku on Thursday July 13, 2017 @12:25PM (#14762629)

Firefox and Chromium already don’t work with EME unless you install a proprietary addon.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee Officially Supports DRM in HTML by FussyZeus on Thursday July 13, 2017 @10:18AM (#14761431)

Then don't use open source browsers, or don't consume the content.

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