Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards
by pornel on Friday October 04, 2013 @11:32AM
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It will make it more miserable, because EME is not a standard DRM, it's a plug-in interface for launching browser-specific/vendor-specific DRM plug-ins. DRM plug-ins are allowed to do whatever they want, and proponents at W3C want to completely bypass the browser and have DRM all the way from TPM to HDCP.
Makers of Flash and Silverlight were a 3rd party in the DRM battle. They had to worry about their plugins' marketshare and could not implement too user-hostile DRM. They had to balance pleasing media corporations and users.
Now there won't be anything stopping MPAA's CEOs wet dreams running in your OS's kernel. Media corps have Netflix and Google (Play Store) in their pockets and can force them to ship all kinds of nastiness — under W3C's brand name.
Makers of Flash and Silverlight were a 3rd party in the DRM battle. They had to worry about their plugins' marketshare and could not implement too user-hostile DRM. They had to balance pleasing media corporations and users.
Now there won't be anything stopping MPAA's CEOs wet dreams running in your OS's kernel. Media corps have Netflix and Google (Play Store) in their pockets and can force them to ship all kinds of nastiness — under W3C's brand name.