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I view EME as sort of a necessary evil. There was never any chance that large content companies were going to be okay with serving unencrypted media over HTTP.
by kevincennis 12y ago
I view EME as sort of a necessary evil.
There was never any chance that large content companies were going to be okay with serving unencrypted media over HTTP. So the choices were:
1. No major film or television content on the web
2. The survival of Flash/Silverlight
3. EME
I'm not crazy about any of those choices, but #3 seems the most reasonable.
- M2Ys4U 12y ago4. They should get over it.
- lambda 12y agoBetween these options, 1 seems the most reasonable to me. I refuse to play along with anyone who thinks that they need to hijack my computer in order to sell me content. They want my money, they can sell me DRM free content.
- spankalee 12y agoThen don't use EME, it's that simple.
- aikah 12y agoI believe the W3C is an open standard consortium. What Big Entertainment wants to do is none of its concern.Let them use a plugin,there is already an interface for that. EME isn't different from a plugin, that's what you don't understand.I does less sure,but it still relies on something people will have to install on their computer, or even worse, encryption at the hardware level.