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The biggest proponent of EME/DRM is microsoft. And they are the first who have put it into their desktop browser (IE11). Microsoft was also the party most eage
by pyalot2 13y ago
The biggest proponent of EME/DRM is microsoft. And they are the first who have put it into their desktop browser (IE11).
Microsoft was also the party most eager to stiffle dissent in the encrypted media working group by the likes of me, EFF, etc. and who aggressively boxed this "standard" trough with almost daily telephone conferences they held with apple, google, bbc, netflix etc.
DRM is designed to put up barriers against competitors. It's designed to stiffle innovation and to vendor-lock in users and authors.
Why do you think Microsoft is all over EME like flies over cowdung? Microsoft has lost tremendous amounts of browser market share, and here comes EME/DRM, and they finally see a credible chance to lock "the web" back into their platform.
- TylerE 13y agoI don't fundamentally understand why this rant is relevant towards a discussion of _standardized_ DRM. IMO the debate is not "standardized DRM vs no DRM" but "standardized DRM vs ad-hoc DRM".
- ZeroGravitas 13y agoWell, for starters, they're not standardizing the DRM. They're standardizing the way you talk to the DRM, but your fully compliant standard browser will not show you Netflix until Netflix has shipped their ad-hoc DRM solution on your platform.
- chc 13y agoThat doesn't really address the question Tyler was asking, though. The question is, how does standardizing the way you talk to the DRM make the situation worse than one where they didn't standardize the way you talk to the DRM?
- jlgreco 13y ago"So the argument "Oh Apple and Microsoft are just gonna profit off EME" is moot, they're gonna pull their vendor-lock in and non-standard web fraud anyway, but now they get to say "waaaat? we're not evil! see, it's a standard!!!""
- chc 13y agoSo they'll use one justification rather than another? That doesn't even seem worth noticing, much less protesting.
- throwaway2048 13y agoEME was proposed and designed by Google & netflix and implemented in chrome book long before ie had it. the biggest proponents by far are Google and Netflix. But hey you don't see anybody talking about how Google wants to kill the open web, its simply the big bad WC3.
- asadotzler 13y agoYou seem to have your facts regularly wrong. And your pronouncements of the future don't seem terribly informed. What qualifies you make these assertion? Given your love of incorrect facts, I wonder what are your credentials.