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For whatever reason Big Media aren't going to allow you access to their content without the DRM. Not adding support for this standard will not change that. If

by jiggy2011 13y ago

For whatever reason Big Media aren't going to allow you access to their content without the DRM. Not adding support for this standard will not change that. If you have Silverlight installed or play big budget games from Steam/Origin etc the odds are that your system is already full of DRM crap. Ultimately either consumers need to reject DRM or the media companies have to decide not to use it. However at the moment people seem quite happy to install it, so W3C are just making their lives marginally easier.

hugoroy 13y ago
> For whatever reason Big Media aren't going to allow you access to their content without the DRM What is "Big Media"? This is just pure speculation not based on facts. There is plenty of high quality, paid-for content on the web already which does not require DRM. IIRC, there are no more DRM on music on iTunes either. It's just a matter of negotiating. If a company's better at negotiationg DRM-free content than Netflix, then too bad for Netflix. There's no reason why web users should support these costs.