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Not true at all, there is nothing in the spec that mandates the use of any particular OS.
by jiggy2011 13y ago
Not true at all, there is nothing in the spec that mandates the use of any particular OS.
- nitrogen 13y agoIs there anything in the spec that ensures compatibility with more than one OS?
- jiggy2011 13y agoIs there anything in the TCP/IP spec that ensures compatibility with more than one OS?
- camus 13y agoTCP/IP is an open standard, DRM are not.
- acdha 13y agoYour statement is as wrong technically as stating that encryption cannot be open source. What matters are the keys, not the code.
- nitrogen 13y agoThe purpose of encryption is to secure communications between two trusted endpoints against untrusted intermediaries. Since all parties to the exchange are trusted and the intent is for both parties to have access to the data, an open source encryption system works. DRM's purpose is similar, but one of the endpoints is in the physical control of an untrusted entity: you. Since the point of DRM is to prevent the user at one of the endpoints from accessing the data, if you have the source and keys to the destination endpoint (e.g. TPM, HDCP-enabled GPU), the endpoint can't be trusted, you can get the data, and the DRM fails at its purpose.
- toyg 13y agoBut there's nothing compelling plugin developers to support all OS/browser combinations, so no, in practice it likely won't be OS-agnostic. This scheme basically just creates a special class of plugins; these plugins clearly won't be OS-agnostic, because they can't -- that's the whole point of the exercise: to restrict playback to devices that are fully authorised/controlled from top to bottom, with the browser piping streams from the web to trusted plugins running on trusted OSes using trusted hardware (TPM etc).
- jiggy2011 13y agoIsn't this the same with all software? There is never anything mandating that anybody supports your OS or browser of choice. If I want to watch netflix or play GTA5 on my haiku box I'm SOL as it is unless there is a business case to be made for doing the port. This actually makes things easier. For example netflix currently uses silverlight for their streaming, this means that in order to watch netflix you need something that supports the entire silverlight stack. With this proposal all you need is modern browser and a compatible CDM which is a much smaller chunk of code.
- toyg 13y agoMuch smaller, I don't think. It will still have to grab the screen and render directly onto it. It's basically the same thing a regular plugin would do except a little bit of identity validation, from what I understand. Technically speaking it's almost the same as the status quo, but a little bit of DRM principles have now been enshrined in the foundations of our web. Depending on what your view of DRM is, of course, this is good news or bad news; but from a technical point of view, it changes very, very little.
- jeltz 13y agoIndeed, this changes nothing technically. But what it does is harm the idea that standards should promote the the open web. You may or may not agree to this idea of course.
- makomk 13y ago