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It seems a bit unfair to lay the blame for Embedded Media Extensions at TBL/W3C's feet, since (as the author mentions) W3C has no enforcement ability, so either
by kingbirdy 7y ago
It seems a bit unfair to lay the blame for Embedded Media Extensions at TBL/W3C's feet, since (as the author mentions) W3C has no enforcement ability, so either TBL & other W3C members could be part of the decision making process for EME, or the companies that wanted it would meet somewhere else and still do it anyway, and possibly have come up with an even worse DRM system. It's unfortunate that a handful of companies are able to exert such an outsize influence on the web, but that's a bigger discussion to be had about capitalism, rather than Tim's fault.
- samastur 7y agoHow could it be worse? And what was the benefit of sitting at the table?
- kingbirdy 7y agoThe current implementation allows Firefox to fully sandbox the DRM module, and optionally uninstall it completely if the user wants. It seems reasonable to me that if other voices hadn't been involved in the standardization process, even this small win may not have been possible.