[Bug 20967] EME does not allow independent implementation, excluding open source implementations.

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20967

--- Comment #10 from Florian Bösch <pyalot@gmail.com> ---
Note that my query for a specification/library does not concern "independently
implementable" per se, and also not the UA side of things.

Proponents of the DRM solution have made the following claims:

1) That it is needed to help people avoid delivering video over
flash/silverlight (a stance also taken up by Tim Barners-Lee)
2) That it will lead to more compatibility for video delivering solutions (a
stance taken by Netflix)

Both these claims can be shown to be wrong as of the current state of affairs.

To achieve both goals there has to be a way for a person wishing to host DRMed
media to serve these UAs DRMs. This information is missing, so both goals are
currently not fulfilled:

1) People (other than Netflix) will turn to flash/silverlight because they
cannot serve the UAs DRM for reason of the specification/libraries being
withheld.
2) Compatibility is not improved because the specification/libraryies are being
withheld.

The Netflix/Google DRM is the first implementation of an EME/CDM and such
already set a tone of exclusivity and incompatibility and not achieving the
stated goals of EME.

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Received on Friday, 15 March 2013 11:35:37 UTC