Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards
by AlexanderDhoore on Thursday October 03, 2013 @04:08PM
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If it's encrypted all the way to the hardware, then it get's a bit more believable. But that really can't be done on the web, can it? "You no have DRM chip? No tubez for you!"
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Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards
by wmf on Thursday October 03, 2013 @04:15PM
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"You no have DRM chip? No tubez for you!"
That is actually their plan.
Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards
by frozenport on Thursday October 03, 2013 @04:16PM
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1. Your cellphone can't watch YouTube without hardware decoding.
2. An issue closer to home can be seen http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Raspberry_Pi/FAQ#Video_and_audio... .
3. Companies target audiences and not platforms. For example, Netflix on Linux.
Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards
by makomk on Thursday October 03, 2013 @05:13PM
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Come to think of it, in theory the Raspberry Pi could support a DRM scheme that's entirely "open source" in the same way that their graphics drivers are already. Basically, the GPU is actually a fairly powerful processor running a binary blob that receives messages from the ARM CPU - if it did all the decryption the CPU-side code could be entirely open.