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So the man who decided that DRM in HTML5 was a good thing has an opinion on the well-being of the world wide web, eh? Sorry if this sounds bitter. I'm just pos

So the man who decided that DRM in HTML5 was a good thing has an opinion on the well-being of the world wide web, eh? Sorry if this sounds bitter. I'm just posting from a browser unable to access HTML5 content at a regular interval. It's an open source browser, and the suggested "fix" is always using a closed-source browser, OS or both. I thought this web-thing was supposed to be open and cross platform?

dasil003 12y ago
It's not a fair comparison at all. The internet is infrastructure for all globalized network applications. DRM is just software implemented by individual applications that you can take or leave. Whether it exists in a standard is utterly irrelevant to the copyright holders who are DRM's raison d'etre, and keeping it out of standards is an idealogical stance that has no practical benefit. All that would do is make sure that Netflix et al continue to use Flash/Silverlight or whatever proprietary plugin meets the Studios ever-more-stringent DRM requirements. If you think standards bodies can do anything that places even the slightest bit of pressure on content rights holders to abandon DRM you are comically delusional. Studios have the content, they dictate the terms (why do you think Netflix got into the production business?).