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If our end result is to see Netflix using HTML5 video on Desktop browsers, how do we get there from a technology and business point of view? Keep in mind that
by mcot2 13y ago
If our end result is to see Netflix using HTML5 video on Desktop browsers, how do we get there from a technology and business point of view? Keep in mind that Netflix has content created and owned by the major studios. If any form of DRM is not the way, than what? How do we get to this end goal? Do we make streams 'free' to copy and rely more on the legal system for protection? We are all keen to slam DRM, but what is a viable alternative?
- onion2k 13y agoThere is no reason why the free and open standards of the internet should be compromised so that a particular business can operate on it. If DRM-free HTML video makes it so that Netflix can't develop a browser based viewer, so be it. The internet is bigger, and considerably more important, than streaming movies.
- lazyjones 13y ago> If our end result is to see Netflix using HTML5 video on Desktop browsers, how do we get there from a technology and business point of view Where's the specific value in that? Netflix can use their own application to display the DRM-ridden content. I don't see why everyone else should have to deal with DRM in the browser because of that.