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I'm curious how with the whole open source community how this will be at all enforceable... there's nothing stopping me releasing a browser that says "To hell w
by balabaster 13y ago
I'm curious how with the whole open source community how this will be at all enforceable... there's nothing stopping me releasing a browser that says "To hell with DRM, I'm just not going to enforce any of it"... and because it's open source and out there in the wild, there's not a whole hell of a lot anyone can do to shut it down...
- Touche 13y agoThe browser doesn't enforce the DRM, a binary blob in the OS does.
- schoen 13y agoSee my comment upthread about encrypted media and how licensing is used to control the availability of decryption keys. In existing DRM people are not required to implement it, but they can't achieve interoperability without the decryption keys.
- betterunix 13y agoThe idea is that the browser is going to ask some lower-level DRM system to decode everything, only displaying it to the user. In theory this is supposed to go all the way down to the TPM, so that you cannot subvert it with a debugger or rootkit. In practice, there will probably be bugs that lead to video streams being captured anyway, and the whole thing will only serve to further divide people and make free software harder to use.