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How could they possibly prevent a custom no-DRM fork of a browser? Seems like a waste of time to me; it'll be about as effective as having a 'no download' flag
by shadowmint 14y ago
How could they possibly prevent a custom no-DRM fork of a browser?
Seems like a waste of time to me; it'll be about as effective as having a 'no download' flag on images.
- ferongr 14y agoThe currentl proposal [1] mandates content decryption modules that are not part of the browser but rather plugins akin to current NPAPI ones (Flash etc). Those will most likely be platform-specific binaries. That makes operating systems like GNU/Linux or BSD-likes unable to decrypt content depending without the correct CDM. [1] 1https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-media/encrypted-media.html https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-med... More reading https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20944 https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20944 http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/02/unethical-html-video-copy-protection-proposal-criticized-by-standards-stakeholders/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/02/unethical-html-video...