Re: Oppose DRM ! Re: CfC: to publish Encrypted Media Extensions specification as a First Public Working Draft (FPWD) from Andreas Kuckartz on 2013-01-25 (public-html-admin@w3.org from January 2013)

From: Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>
Date: 25 Jan 2013 14:38:23 +0100
To: public-html-admin@w3.org
Message-ID: <51028ACF.6050307@ping.de>

Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ):
> Also, why do people insist that drm is incompatible with foss? Yes, today's
> implementations are largely security through obscurity but there is nothing
> that fundamentally prevents an open source drm stack if one wished to make
> the investment. Create a hardware tpm and publish the specs, build some
> form of attestation on top of it, etc. Clearly nontrivial but not
> fundamentally impossible.

I consider it impossible to do that while keeping the software open
until the opposite is proven.

Cheers,
Andreas

Received on Friday, 25 January 2013 14:01:11 UTC