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>HTML itself is a fundamentally open standard on which the entire op web is built. Adding DRM to that ends that. Period. No hysterics. Nothing about adding DRM
by gph 14y ago
>HTML itself is a fundamentally open standard on which the entire op web is built. Adding DRM to that ends that. Period. No hysterics.
Nothing about adding DRM will make HTML any less of an open standard. It will just be an open standard that allows those who use it to implement DRM on their content.
You can throw around as much rhetoric as you want and say it isn't open to interpretation, you're still not right.
- Joeboy 14y ago> It will just be an open standard that allows those who use it to implement DRM on their content. As somebody who's made quite a lot of websites for quite a lot of people, I suspect that equates to "the internet will eventually be almost entirely DRMed".
- jiggy2011 14y agoFlash and silverlight have offered DRM capabilities for years and only a small minority of websites have used them.
- rayiner 14y agoSo what? People who want to produce open content will still be able to use the internet to reach those who want to consume it. I'd actually love to have viable DRM. I'd love a youtube where I could pay a monthly subscription instead of watching annoying ads. If DRM gave me that option it'd be great.
- AnthonyMouse 14y ago>I'd love a youtube where I could pay a monthly subscription instead of watching annoying ads. If DRM gave me that option it'd be great. Can you explain how DRM could actually accomplish that? I don't see any existing barrier to them offering an option to pay a monthly fee to get access to ad-free YouTube along side the ad supported free version, other than that probably not enough people would prefer paying vs. watching ads for it to be worth offering it.
- rayiner 14y agoI guess I'm thinking netflix with music videos.
- AnthonyMouse 14y agoI guess I just don't see the huge problem in allowing people who have paid to download the videos. You already have this person's money. If they cancel their subscription then they no longer get access to new videos; you can sell long-term subscriptions with early termination fees to prevent users from subscribing one day out of the year to get all the new videos. The videos are going to be on The Pirate Bay regardless of the presence of DRM. The user who pays and wants to cheat can as if not more easily share his password with his friends than the videos themselves. I just don't see what it's buying you -- and it's providing less value to the user who can't as easily watch the video offline or on as wide a range of devices, which reduces the number of users you can attract at a given price point.