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After reading the discussion yesterday on the Save Firefox post [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11678516 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11678516], I
by bearcobra 10y ago
After reading the discussion yesterday on the Save Firefox post [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11678516 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11678516], I'm still unclear if EME is a compromise that provides a standard for proprietary DRM solutions to talk to any browser, or a backdoor that will allow media companies to remove user control and decide which browsers win. If it's the former, that feels like a good thing compared to the proprietary plug-in days of yore.
- TD-Linux 10y agoThe latter. The standard does not specify the interface that the DRM blobs talk to the browser, or even that it's an interface at all as opposed to a built in feature of a proprietary browser.