I welcome HTML5 DRM
There are reasons to like this, from a blob hater's standpoint.
Think of what Flash & Silverlight already are. Just like a DRM-blob used in HTML5, they are Stallman's worst nightmare: unimplementable in free software, yet used as web standards.
Worse, creators & publishers don't percieve Flash & Silverlight as DRM, because they are so much more. Flash, at least, is being used recklessly, often where DRM isn't even intended. Consider bloggers posting videos of their cats ? they don't care for DRM and have no joy in pushing blobs on you. Despite HTML5 being super-easy for them to use, some braindamaged tool they like to use (is WordPress doing this?) wrap it in Flash, and thus you have this incompatibility layer (I call it DRM) between most web-video and your Raspberry Pi (or anything else not endorsed by Adobe). Totally unnecessary.
Silverlight, I doubt it is the minimal DRM-blob suitable for porting to lots of platforms, not to mention that maybe Microsoft would have a monopoly on porting it.
The industry wants DRM (again), this time they want to call DRM for what it is, and facilitate for minimal implementations and a competitive market.
There are reasons to like this, from a blob hater's standpoint.
Think of what Flash & Silverlight already are. Just like a DRM-blob used in HTML5, they are Stallman's worst nightmare: unimplementable in free software, yet used as web standards.
Worse, creators & publishers don't percieve Flash & Silverlight as DRM, because they are so much more. Flash, at least, is being used recklessly, often where DRM isn't even intended. Consider bloggers posting videos of their cats ? they don't care for DRM and have no joy in pushing blobs on you. Despite HTML5 being super-easy for them to use, some braindamaged tool they like to use (is WordPress doing this?) wrap it in Flash, and thus you have this incompatibility layer (I call it DRM) between most web-video and your Raspberry Pi (or anything else not endorsed by Adobe). Totally unnecessary.
Silverlight, I doubt it is the minimal DRM-blob suitable for porting to lots of platforms, not to mention that maybe Microsoft would have a monopoly on porting it.
The industry wants DRM (again), this time they want to call DRM for what it is, and facilitate for minimal implementations and a competitive market.
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