Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards
by bzbarsky on Friday October 04, 2013 @01:00AM
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The main possible problems are twofold:
1) EME as currently proposed is video only, but will the W3C try to do the same for images? For text? There are certainly constituencies who would live simple turnkey DRM for those on the web. And they don't do it in Flash _precisely_ because Flash websites are not a good idea.
2) If the above happens, there is no incentive for Netflix, say, to try come up with a setup that works with open-source browsers and still satisfies the rightsholders for the content they distribute. If people complain they'll just be told the spec says browsers need to implement DRM, and if that means no open-source browsers tough luck.
Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards
by nileshtrivedi on Friday October 04, 2013 @12:36AM
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The problem is that free and open-source browsers will not be able to show more and more content on the web. That is already true but it was not encouraged or endorsed by W3C so far. That has changed.
Would that somehow lead to Hacker News or Facebook encrypting their site's source code with that DRM? I sort of doubt it. They could do that now with Flash if they wanted to, but no one thinks Flash websites are a good idea.