Originally posted by dee.
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And do you think Apple and Microsoft will just let anyone use their DRM systems for free?
This whole thing just smells like a power-grab. Netflix is now a big deal, they want to prevent future market disruptors and raise entry barriers by making it harder for others to become online distributors. Hollywood, MPAA and the rest demand DRM, and this means new distributors will have to either create their own DRM schemes that satisfy the demands of the copyright mafia, or they will have to pay royalties to Apple/Netflix/Microsoft/Google for using their DRM-schemes.
Yes it does, the spec specifically mentions that there can be arbitrary CDM's.
Except that without EME, it would be too inconvenient for them and too inconvenient for the users.
So then we agree that there shouldn't be a W3C spec for this thing, and that DRM shouldn't be a web standard.
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