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Re:The W3C's plan for DRM in HTML5 is a betrayal for all web... by wmf on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @10:21PM (#5599297)
In theory perhaps it's no different. But I think EME would work out very poorly in practice. Some browsers either allow no plugins or only a few grandfathered plugins. What EME systems will they support? Imagine a future where Mobile Safari only supports FairPlay, IE only supports WMDRM, Chrome OS only supports Widevine, Android gets fragmented into a half-dozen different DRM schemes depending on vendor, desktop Linux has nothing, etc. This scenario is much worse than Flash.
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Re:The W3C's plan for DRM in HTML5 is a betrayal for all web... by cleverjake on Thursday April 25, 2013 @09:21PM (#5610971)
Once someone supports EME, they would support anything written for EME. I don't believe there will be a way to 'grandfather' any old systems. That would require either a complete rewrite of the plugin in the browser, or a rewrite in an EME compatible code, in which case it will run anywhere EME exists.

secondly, isn't the situation you describe exactly the situation we have now with flash/silverlight? I can't play WMAs on my Mac, Flash on my Droid, or any other number of combinations.

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