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> Without a W3C standard we might get several totally different, incompatible DRM implementations instead of one standard one. The EME spec does NOT define a s
by azakai 13y ago
> Without a W3C standard we might get several totally different, incompatible DRM implementations instead of one standard one.
The EME spec does NOT define a single standard DRM implementation.
The point of EME is to provide a single interface to a DRM module. The DRM modules will be entirely nonstandard, closed-source, and there will be many of them.
Google has its own DRM module, Microsoft has its own. So there are already two, entirely incompatible DRM implementations. And none of them work on other browsers. Even if other browsers implemented EME, the actual DRM implementations would not work on them.
So this is a step backwards, not forwards. It increases fragmentation.
- jiggy2011 13y agoIsn't DRM highly fragmented as it is?