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"Lesser of two evils". I prefer a nicely sandboxed and secured EME plugin over the insecure and clunkly silverlight pipelight trickery that was necessary before
by lima 10y ago
"Lesser of two evils". I prefer a nicely sandboxed and secured EME plugin over the insecure and clunkly silverlight pipelight trickery that was necessary before.
Blame the media industry for forcing it.
- throwaway2048 10y agoOr we can blame google for gleefully going along too.
- mrighele 10y agoGoogle _is_ part of the media industry.
- chippy 10y agoIt's part of the advertising industry who's clients include the media industry.
- mrighele 10y agoTrue, but I was thinking more about the part where they sell music streaming services (Google Play Music, YouTube Red). Maybe I am wrong since they are not producers, but I considered this as being part of the media industry.
- hlandau 10y agoI don't think so. If Google was only implementing DRM to tick boxes, they wouldn't be implementing "extracurriculars" like hardware-based DRM on ChromeOS devices. They wouldn't own the very DRM company whose product they're peddling, a company which advertises to the very industry which is supposedly forcing Google's hand. http://www.widevine.com/ http://www.widevine.com/ Take a look at this page and search for 'HW_SECURE_ALL': http://www.widevine.com/product_news.html http://www.widevine.com/product_news.html Now, what exactly is the point in implementing a more secure DRM variant (which as far as I can tell uses remote attestation) if content remains available to more 'vulnerable' platforms? We even have a potential lockin motive by Google here, too. I can see it now: "Only available on ChromeOS."
- Buge 10y agoDid you know that Netflix only supports up to 720p on Chrome and Firefox? Because the DRM in those is easy to circumvent. People want higher than 720p, so browsers implement better DRM.
- junk_disposal 10y ago>I prefer a nicely sandboxed and secured EME plugin over the insecure and clunkly silverlight pipelight trickery that was necessary before. What's the difference between the two? Why do you think the EME plugin is any better than (say) Flash?
- kevin_b_er 10y agoIn order to confirm the plugin is in control of your computer, enough to prevent you from copying the precious bits, how sandboxed do you really think the DRM is? It has to have its claws like a rootkit into your machine in order to be "secure". How sandboxed can it be then?
- snakeanus 10y ago"Lesser of two evils" is piracy.
- aanm1988 10y ago> Blame the media industry for forcing it. No, I'll blame the ad company pushing it into the browser.