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I grant you that the point is largely video, and I probably made a poor choice to reference other things happening on the page, but even within purely the video

I grant you that the point is largely video, and I probably made a poor choice to reference other things happening on the page, but even within purely the video playback, a CDM is hands down far less proprietary code than a plugin like Flash which not only is poorly optimized for any given browser, but also introduces a whole host of other issues which a CDM doesn't get anywhere near (eg. flash cookies). The rest of your comment is just straight up offensive zealotry. Spare me the ideological rants and go re-read my opening comment carefully. I spent the first 7 years fighting against DRM in direct conversation with rights holders. I have signed deals with hundreds of small distributors to stream content without DRM. I have done more for the cause of avoiding DRM in practice than a million EFF press releases which do nothing but preach to the choir. Furthermore, I am not building DRM, I am only implementing existing industry-standard DRM as required by studios. I can choose not to do so, in which case I won't get the content I need to build a viable business, and then I will go out of business, but the status quo will not have changed. This nonsense about me forcing you to run code on your computer without your approval is asinine. I am not forcing you to run anything, run what you want, but I'm not allowed to stream certain content to you without it, that is beyond my control. If you only want unencumbered content, then don't use my service. This is not the same class of issue as nerfed hardware like John Deere. Like it or not, there is a legitimate reason for legal copyright which is inherently different from property rights, and conflating the two completely undermines any legitimate point which you might wish to make.

simoncion 11y ago
> ...a CDM is hands down far less proprietary code than a plugin like Flash Sure, but it still relies a binary blob, just like Flash. > ...I am only implementing existing industry-standard DRM as required by studios. I can choose not to do so, in which case I won't get the content I need to build a viable business, and then I will go out of business, but the status quo will not have changed. Don't forget the story of how Apple forced the music industry into abandoning DRM on their "high-value intellectual property". Had Google, Mozilla, Apple, and Microsoft all refused to play ball, and also continued to push towards the removal of Flash and Silverlight from the web, we would likely soon be seeing either the same abandonment of DRM'd streaming video, or the abandonment of streaming video by the major studios (and subsequent void filling by smaller players).
- cpeterso 11y ago
  Streaming services would most likely move to native desktop applications, like they do with mobile apps, before abandoning DRM. Netflix already has a Windows desktop application, but they don't seem to promote it much. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/netflix/9wzdncrfj3tj https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/netflix/9wzdncrfj...

simoncion 11y ago

> ...a CDM is hands down far less proprietary code than a plugin like Flash Sure, but it still relies a binary blob, just like Flash. > ...I am only implementing existing industry-standard DRM as required by studios. I can choose not to do so, in which case I won't get the content I need to build a viable business, and then I will go out of business, but the status quo will not have changed. Don't forget the story of how Apple forced the music industry into abandoning DRM on their "high-value intellectual property". Had Google, Mozilla, Apple, and Microsoft all refused to play ball, and also continued to push towards the removal of Flash and Silverlight from the web, we would likely soon be seeing either the same abandonment of DRM'd streaming video, or the abandonment of streaming video by the major studios (and subsequent void filling by smaller players).

cpeterso 11y ago
Streaming services would most likely move to native desktop applications, like they do with mobile apps, before abandoning DRM. Netflix already has a Windows desktop application, but they don't seem to promote it much. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/netflix/9wzdncrfj3tj https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/netflix/9wzdncrfj...