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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by mtgx on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @03:12AM (#15282409)
> This is a small amount of pushing power.

Not true. See Google's NaCl and Mozilla and Microsoft's own alternatives to that. Neither went anywhere because each browser pushed in a different direction. It's only through W3C that they managed to build WebAssembly and all agree to use it.

I see this DRM thing the same way. Without W3C they may have built their own DRM solutions (and in fact, they have, years ago), but they wouldn't be compatible with each other, which means they wouldn't get too much adoption either.

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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by gsnedders on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @07:02AM (#15283454)
> I see this DRM thing the same way. Without W3C they may have built their own DRM solutions (and in fact, they have, years ago), but they wouldn't be compatible with each other, which means they wouldn't get too much adoption either.

Prior to the first spec being presented to the W3C, it had already been worked on by two of the biggest browser vendors.

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