BBC demands DRM for HTML5

Re:BBC demands DRM for HTML5 by trunnell on Saturday February 16, 2013 @12:57PM (#5232319)

Third parties, namely Flash and Silverlight, already plug in their own DRM systems via NSAPI. How is this worse?

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Re:BBC demands DRM for HTML5 by darklajid on Saturday February 16, 2013 @03:35PM (#5232911)

Depends. What Flash and Silverlight do is just as bad => This proposal isn't worse.

But Flash and Silverlight are dead or dying and were never public specifications we cared about. What I consider 'worse' here in this proposal is that we'd kind of 'bless' the DRM layer in HTML. I fear a comment like "Hey, it's part of HTML 5 so it has to be good, right?" if nonsense like this is added.

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Re:BBC demands DRM for HTML5 by trunnell on Saturday February 16, 2013 @03:09PM (#5232797)

Oops, I meant NPAPI (not NSAPI).

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Re:BBC demands DRM for HTML5 by Natsu on Monday February 18, 2013 @04:06PM (#5240637)

We don't want to make it easier to add DRM. The more painful it is, the better.

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