This new doesn't explains the technical concept!
I really don't like that news. I love Phoronix and read it every day. But I really disagree how Michael you provided this information:
1) Your opinion is given and not argumented. You state that internet won't exists without DRM, but it has for a long time now (with some exceptions)
2) You don't explain the technical concept behind that "standardization" so readers have to trust you but can't make their own opinion without reading technical documentation outside your news. So you provide little added value and doesn't gives the intellectual keys to thing about it. The fact is that with the current proposal, CDM's will always be arbitrary hidden and private code, connected to the EME API. So in substance:
- CDM's will have the same problems than current solutions : they will be compatible with operating systems only in function of the developpeur knowledge/will (or his employer one of course). So if that "standard" is accepted, probably that more content on the web won't be accessible to Linux and exotic/minor hardwares and softwares.
- CDM's will need to be downloaded and installed before viewing the website that use it (the code is external to the browser so, can we trust it? Probably that browsers will display a popup saying : this website need an external plugin to show its content. Do you want to install it? yes/no). So, more popups in our life and more unknown code to be installed from the web!
In my opinion, it's not something that will make the web better but worse!
I want to add that the main problem of the current press (except some of course, included Phoronix, most of the time) : is that they only relay the information without any more deeper analysis that helps reader to understand and make their opinion by themselves. I hope phoronix will keep their readers informed and enlightened by the news.
I suspect that the word "standard" makes automagically happy a lot of Linux' enthousiasts but it can be a trap, like the word "open-source" and others.
Nicolas
I really don't like that news. I love Phoronix and read it every day. But I really disagree how Michael you provided this information:
1) Your opinion is given and not argumented. You state that internet won't exists without DRM, but it has for a long time now (with some exceptions)
"There's not going to be an Internet without DRM, so while the Free Software Foundation and others may be against EME, it's at least a standardization on HTML5 rather than all the different DRM protection schemes in Flash, Silverlight, browser plug-ins, etc. "
- CDM's will have the same problems than current solutions : they will be compatible with operating systems only in function of the developpeur knowledge/will (or his employer one of course). So if that "standard" is accepted, probably that more content on the web won't be accessible to Linux and exotic/minor hardwares and softwares.
- CDM's will need to be downloaded and installed before viewing the website that use it (the code is external to the browser so, can we trust it? Probably that browsers will display a popup saying : this website need an external plugin to show its content. Do you want to install it? yes/no). So, more popups in our life and more unknown code to be installed from the web!
In my opinion, it's not something that will make the web better but worse!
I want to add that the main problem of the current press (except some of course, included Phoronix, most of the time) : is that they only relay the information without any more deeper analysis that helps reader to understand and make their opinion by themselves. I hope phoronix will keep their readers informed and enlightened by the news.
I suspect that the word "standard" makes automagically happy a lot of Linux' enthousiasts but it can be a trap, like the word "open-source" and others.
Nicolas
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