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Re:YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters by asadotzler on Saturday February 07, 2015 @02:01AM (#9013329)
Your assumption here about going from one DRM implementation to many is wildly off the mark.

There have been several major video DRM solutions in widespread use for many many years including Adobe's Access (in Flash, and other places) Microsoft's PlayReady (in Windows, X-box, Silverlight, etc.) and more recently Google bought WideVine for its DRM offerings and has spent the last 4 or 5 years building that into the Google Chrome and Android platforms.

Pretty much every major video streaming service was/is using a different DRM implementation. That's nothing new at all.

Your suggestion that somehow there's going to be a shift from one to a lot more DRM providers thanks to EME is uninformed and unfounded.

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Re:YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters by hsivonen on Saturday February 07, 2015 @07:23AM (#9013772)
With NPAPI each site picked one plug-in that worked in multiple browsers. Another site could pick another single plug-in that also worked in multiple browsers. With EME, each browser supports some DRM(s) and there's no single DRM supported by all browsers, so sites need to support multiple DRMs to reach multiple browsers.
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