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At least then third-party DRM services, which could in theory work on any platform, would be viable. With this "plugin interface" the DRM only has to come from
by mtgx 9y ago
At least then third-party DRM services, which could in theory work on any platform, would be viable.
With this "plugin interface" the DRM only has to come from the OS vendor. This is why you're now starting to see certain Netflix resolutions only working on certain browser. The browser vendors have already started abusing the real power of DRM: control over competition.
- ChrisSD 9y agoIn theory third party DRM can work on any platform. That they don't is totally on the media industry. That said it's true the standard should have done more to mandate browser agnosticism, seeing as big media doesn't care. Of course they still could have ignored that mandate.
- eveningcoffee 9y agoYou only see video but this is not important. The higher risk is that we will have DRM of everything. Imagine the implications if the whole web page is behind DRM.
- paulmd 9y agoTo make this explicit for the less imaginative users: markup language as we know it ceases to exist. You interact with web content through something like Flash, and we get unblockable ads on everything, and any other conditions that content providers choose.