W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns

Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by ArchReaper on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:03PM (#15279564)

For "simple economic reasons" you believe companies will go out of their way to block Linux users for some reason? If the browser supports it, that's all that really matters.

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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by rocqua on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:14PM (#15279663)

To support EME on linux, they need to create an EME plugin for linux. Leaks in that plugin would kinda break DRM, so it needs to be designed well.

Writing and maintaing a crypto plugin is quite expensive.

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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by tedunangst on Monday September 18, 2017 @07:26PM (#15280579)

That plugin is called widevine and it's been shipped with chrome for Linux for a year or more. It's already done. They don't need to do anything.

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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by AndrewCHM on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:53PM (#15279996)

wouldn't it be Google or Adobe who would write the plugin?

its not like they lack the developers or the such

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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by thephyber on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:09PM (#15279627)

Companies browser-sniff, rather than feature-sniff.

They shouldn't. But they usually do.

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