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Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards by marcosdumay on Thursday October 03, 2013 @03:56PM (#6491566)
Most browsers are free software nowadays. Their makers opinion is important (yeah, forking is hard work), but not that much.
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Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards by azakai on Thursday October 03, 2013 @06:45PM (#6492674)
EME is driven by two browser vendors, Google and Microsoft, in partnership with Netflix. See Editors section of the spec,

https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-med...

Chrome and IE are the ones pushing this - so yes, the opinion of browser makers matter, but sadly the 2 biggest ones, Google and Microsoft, do not just support EME but are the ones driving it.

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Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards by glhaynes on Thursday October 03, 2013 @04:16PM (#6491694)
This vastly underestimates the importance of the massive number of users running browsers supplied by the vendor of their device/OS.
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