Re:Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential
by flavor8 on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @09:30AM
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> What good is protection against piracy from people not willing to pirate?
It's about business. Protection that works for 99.5% of the population is good enough for the old content industries. Netflix couldn't exist in its current form without DRM -- Netflix does not succeed because of novel technologies, but rather because of successful content licensing.
To be clear I'm not a fan of DRM, especially not when it's baked into the HTML standard.
> And no, pirated content is far more convenient than DRMed content.
I didn't say that - you're arguing against a position I didn't state.
It's about business. Protection that works for 99.5% of the population is good enough for the old content industries. Netflix couldn't exist in its current form without DRM -- Netflix does not succeed because of novel technologies, but rather because of successful content licensing.
To be clear I'm not a fan of DRM, especially not when it's baked into the HTML standard.
> And no, pirated content is far more convenient than DRMed content.
I didn't say that - you're arguing against a position I didn't state.