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I think that many people are drastically underestimating the effect this may have on the open web. The response "oh, well we'll just build a browser that will a

I think that many people are drastically underestimating the effect this may have on the open web. The response "oh, well we'll just build a browser that will avoid the DRM" isn't going to work quite as well as one might hope. It's not such a stretch of the imagination that content providers will detect such browsers and refuse to supply any content at all. This would be similar to what many sites do now for users of IE6-8, where a message is displayed prompting them to upgrade. Except in this case a message would be displayed telling you to download an effectively locked-down browser. Ugh.

grimtrigger 13y ago
Impossible, browser detection is easily spoofed. Some browsers come built with the ability to spoof other browsers since its valuable for developers who need to test how their sites appear in other browsers.
- da_n 13y ago
  But you could easily do feature detection, much like Modernizr, simply changing the user agent is not going to fool anyone.
rimantas 13y ago
This will have precisely zero effect on the open web (whatever that is). Amazing number of commenters fail to realise that: a) nothing that makes web open is removed. Sorry to disappoint you, but HTML will keep working as it did. b) technology not being w3c standard does not stop it from being implemented in browsers as history shows. In the end what browser vendors do matters the most, not what w3c thinks. Just look at the history of WHATWG.