W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards

Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards by pdonis on Thursday October 03, 2013 @06:01PM (#6492437)

If the Web cannot give them the content they want, they'll get it elsewhere, probably from silo'd App Stores where things "just work."

And in this scenario (i.e., the way things are now), someone like me, who doesn't give a shit about "content" but does care about the Web itself, can still avoid DRM by not installing the plugins, not using the silo'd App Stores, etc. But if my browser is the silo'd plugin/App Store, I'm SOL. That is why all this matters: it makes DRM and all of the closed source nastiness that goes with it the default, instead of something people have to choose. I think that's a very, very bad idea.

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Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards by takluyver on Thursday October 03, 2013 @06:12PM (#6492489)

This is unlikely to change. Firefox at least is not about to ship with DRM plugins built in, any more than it comes with Flash built in now.

EME is not strictly DRM in your browser: it's a standardised interface to allow your browser to talk to DRM modules.

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