Re:BBC demands DRM for HTML5
by shmerl on Saturday February 16, 2013 @08:14PM
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1. DRM is unethical.
2. DRM is a dying trend.
3. DRM goes against the principles of the open Web which W3C is supposed to promote.
Given the above, it's not the business of W3C to promote DRM on the Web let alone to standardize it. Quite on the contrary, W3C should prevent DRM proliferation. And it's simply dumb to standardize the dying trends. Why doesn't someone propose to make Flash a Web standard for example? It's still widely used, but it's a dying trend for the Web.
> The W3C spec does not put "DRM in browsers." It allows browsers to use "decryption modules" that already exist elsewhere, like in the OS platform. There are APIs to determine what sorts of "decryption modules" are available and to use them to decrypt media.
See the W3C mail list. It is about putting DRM in the browsers. The language was watered down on purpose, but it doesn't change the reality.
The bottom line - those who think they need DRM - let them stick with what they have. Those who want to move to open web - don't need plugins and don't need DRM either.
2. DRM is a dying trend.
3. DRM goes against the principles of the open Web which W3C is supposed to promote.
Given the above, it's not the business of W3C to promote DRM on the Web let alone to standardize it. Quite on the contrary, W3C should prevent DRM proliferation. And it's simply dumb to standardize the dying trends. Why doesn't someone propose to make Flash a Web standard for example? It's still widely used, but it's a dying trend for the Web.
> The W3C spec does not put "DRM in browsers." It allows browsers to use "decryption modules" that already exist elsewhere, like in the OS platform. There are APIs to determine what sorts of "decryption modules" are available and to use them to decrypt media.
See the W3C mail list. It is about putting DRM in the browsers. The language was watered down on purpose, but it doesn't change the reality.
The bottom line - those who think they need DRM - let them stick with what they have. Those who want to move to open web - don't need plugins and don't need DRM either.