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Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards by frozenport on Thursday October 03, 2013 @04:16PM (#6491690)
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.

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Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards by makomk on Thursday October 03, 2013 @05:13PM (#6492095)
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.
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Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards by Touche on Thursday October 03, 2013 @06:14PM (#6492507)
It doesn't matter unless the website acknowledges your DRM scheme.
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