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EME is an API to talk to a Content Decryption Module, I.e. a DRM system. EME is easy and free to implement, but entirely useless without a CDM. There is no spec
by frivoal 10y ago
EME is an API to talk to a Content Decryption Module, I.e. a DRM system. EME is easy and free to implement, but entirely useless without a CDM. There is no specification for CDMs. If you want one, you need to license it from Adobe or some other Hollywood approved vendor (or become one your self by playing by their rules).
You cannot just implement the royalty free web standard specifications and expect the web to work. You also need some corporate agreements.
Arguably this isn't really worse than needing flash or silver light. But at the same time it looked like these were on their way out and that the battle for a 100% open standards web was being won. And Flash & friends could be installed by end users, while CDMs need to come bundled in the browser. Also, in web standards circles, flash and co were considered problems to be solved, while EME is presented as the solution.
So if you're a new browser vendor, and have an inovative (and legal) business model, either Hollywood likes it, or you will not be able to support the whole web.
- frivoal 10y agoAlso, a must read about DRM, by hixie (main author of the HTML5 spec): https://plus.google.com/+IanHickson/posts/iPmatxBYuj2 https://plus.google.com/+IanHickson/posts/iPmatxBYuj2 If you've ever thought DRM made no sense at av the tech or crypto level, read that to see that you are right but focusing on the wrong aspect, and that strategically it makes perfect sense (and is even nastier).
- lisivka 10y agoThere is nothing new in your link. See https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=m5wLgC546hMC&pg=PA24875&lpg=PA24875&dq=content+providers+vs+video+taper+recorders&source=bl&ots=XYbUU-0gyZ&sig=GIRrd7Z5bPDodc4bLWJTb7TN_2E&hl=uk&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjuyNigoebNAhXCHJoKHUB3A5YQ6AEIUjAG#v=onepage&q=content%20providers%20vs%20video%20taper%20recorders&f=false https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=m5wLgC546hMC&pg=PA24875...
- AnthonyMouse 10y ago> If you've ever thought DRM made no sense at av the tech or crypto level, read that to see that you are right but focusing on the wrong aspect, and that strategically it makes perfect sense (and is even nastier). Everybody already knows that. But Hollywood can't actually admit to that because it's blatant cartoon villain-style robber baron behavior, so they keep insisting that the purpose of DRM is to "protect content" from "pirates." Which means we have to keep pointing out that it has never done that. Their actual reason for pushing DRM is why we need to get rid of it.