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I can't find the information to answer my question, so don't downvote me because it's a stupid question. I admit it is, I just want to know for curiosity. I do
by mikhailt 12y ago
I can't find the information to answer my question, so don't downvote me because it's a stupid question. I admit it is, I just want to know for curiosity.
I don't understand why Adobe has to be used here? Why didn't Mozilla partner with Apple, Google, and Opera on a standard implementation code for this? After that's done, then Mozilla can try to sneak in one last question for all partners, can we do it better than this?
- wmf 12y agoHere's some speculation based on industry politics: Apple doesn't cooperate with anyone. Opera is irrelevant. Google, MS, and Adobe are probably willing to license their DRM plugins to Mozilla. We can imagine that some kind of three-way bidding process went on and the outcome was that Mozilla chose Adobe DRM. As others have pointed out, Adobe is kind of desperate because they don't have their own browser, so perhaps Adobe was willing to make their DRM plugin slightly less evil than Google or MS.
- cpeterso 12y agoIf Mozilla licensed DRM from a competing browser vendor, they would effectively be crowning a de facto DRM "standard" based on combined browser market share. Mozilla's support for Adobe's "less evil" CDM means there may be more competition around DRM, though I have no theories how that might play out.
- radley 12y agoI'm assuming Adobe simply ported the tech from Flash video DRM (which everyone was using).
- hsivonen 12y agoWell, there's a bit more tweaking to make it EME-compatible, but basically: yes.