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Being in the spec is worse, because now it is the browser's responsibility. This is what EME defenders don't seem to understand, it's all about offloading the r
by Touche 9y ago
Being in the spec is worse, because now it is the browser's responsibility. This is what EME defenders don't seem to understand, it's all about offloading the responsibility off of media companies and onto browser vendors.
Let me repeat that, EME is a redistribution of software maintenance (bugs, etc.) off of the media companies and onto browser vendors.
- tehbeard 9y agoPast experience with buggy software has shown me media companies are way worse at this than Microsoft/Google/Mozilla whose job is to ship working code.
- chimeracoder 9y ago> Past experience with buggy software has shown me media companies are way worse at this than Microsoft/Google/Mozilla whose job is to ship working code. With EME, you still have to download a proprietary binary written by the media companies and run it on your computer. It's not inherently any less buggy than the previous approaches were.
- hsivonen 9y agoThe proprietary DRM components come from Google, Microsoft and Apple.
- Touche 9y agoWhich is exactly why they want to offload the responsibility onto someone else.
- lordlimecat 9y agoThat is a good thing if you care in the least about security. Being secure is a selling point of browsers, and hence they take code quality seriously-- bug trackers, bug bounties, regular and automatic updates. History has shown that third party plugin providers care not even a little bit about how slow or broken their plugins are, because they have a monopoly on that content you want to view. As a result, in a world where the content creators control the plugin code, everyone ends up with broken, insecure, slow plugins. We're trying to exit that world. Don't start getting nostalgic for it.