Re:Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential
by eponeponepon on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @08:18AM
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>Perhaps they'll choose to offer a binary for other open source OSs
Even that's a bit hopeful imho - consider how easy it is to imagine an advert declaring "Game of Thrones Season 5: Exclusive to Apple!"... Hell, it could be worse - "Only on Intel"?
Re:Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential
by shawnz on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @12:13PM
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> That is the kind web you are negotiating for.
As discussed, that is a motivation that will exist regardless of the W3C's course of action. What I am negotiating for is the W3C being in charge of what access these "big bad companies" have over web standards, rather than allowing the development of similar technologies to continue unmoderated.
Re:Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential
by duncan_bayne on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @03:41PM
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The fact that EME is being seriously entertained by the W3C should tell you everything you need to know about the power relationships there. I don't think there's as much 'being in charge' as you think there might be.
How long do you think MS would back port these things to win7 before they bump their minimumContentPlayer=win8 and then that's it you're not seeing any of that media to you pay up.
Perhaps they'll choose to offer a binary for other open source OSs, it will just be a major version behind, 6 months late and kind of buggy.