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Netflix isn't the problem here, the studios are. They're the ones demanding DRM and holding Netflix et al hostage unless they get it. If you don't want DRM, th
by cheald 13y ago
Netflix isn't the problem here, the studios are. They're the ones demanding DRM and holding Netflix et al hostage unless they get it.
If you don't want DRM, then don't consume content distributed with DRM in any format, rather than just targeting a specific format. The boogeyman here is the studio licensing content to Netflix with DRM requirements and distributing DVDs with DRM. Stop consuming their content.
The distribution channel isn't the bad guy here. Making them out to be just obfuscates the issue.
- anigbrowl 13y agoIt seems like people want to keep watching movies and TV shows, though, to the point of being willing to pay for it.
- cheald 13y agoYup. People want content more than they don't want DRM. This is why if you want to actually vote against DRM, stop consuming content that is DRM'd. This means movies, TV, video games, e-books, and the like. Most people don't actually care enough to do that.
- mtgx 13y agoIf most people consume their "DRM content" through Netflix these days, doesn't that mean they should stop using Netflix? The campaign is valid.
- cheald 13y agoYes, but the raging against Netflix isn't the answer. Rage against the studios and cancel your Netflix account in the process. Making Netflix out to be the bad guy here does a disservice to the whole issue because it doesn't actually address the people behind the problem, and implicitly says "funding the studios is fine, just don't do it through Netflix". Netflix doesn't want to be saddled to Silverlight (because, let's be honest, who would want to be? It's a dead and failed technology). Netflix is contractually required to maintain DRM on the content they deliver. Of course they're going to want to be able to use the latest and greatest technologies while meeting their contractual obligations (which, you know, enable them to stay in business). They'd be fools to not try to get away from Silverlight, and they'd be fools to not try to find a way to fit their business into the future of the web. Sure, it'd be great if they gave the studios the finger and told them "We're doing HTML5 without DRM, deal with it", but Netflix already operates at the mercy of the studios' good will, and they cannot survive as a business if they aren't willing to meet the studios' demands on the content they license. I am extremely skeptical about the suggestion that Netflix is some archvillian cackling to themselves about enslaving the web through DRM.
- K0nserv 13y agoYou cannot really justify streaming without DRM and the studios will never agree too it. The problem is having DRM as part of the HTML specification because it will harm the web as a whole. I much prefer it to stay the way it is with silverlight.
- sucrenoir 13y agoWhy would having DRM as part of the HTML specification hurt the web ? I am not in favour of DRM but these who want to protect their content always find a way (silverlight). It would probably be simpler for everybody if it was part of HTML.
- K0nserv 13y agoWell for one it will cause a lot of friction with the open source community as they are generally very anti proprietary/close code which in turn will cause fragmentation in the browsers. I don't really know why, but I would prefer HTML to be free from DRM and use plugins to implement such things.