[Bug 21231] License descriptor attribute

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21231

--- Comment #14 from Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> ---
An elegant solution to the purported non-DRM use cases of EME was proposed last
year: http+aes (http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7011&to=7012). It
was later removed from the spec, because there weren't actually parties
interested in solving those non-DRM use cases.

That the purported non-DRM use cases of EME are red herring has already been
established. EME is really about DRM.

If there were parties who really needed those non-DRM use cases addressed, we
could revive http+aes. In the meantime, it's unproductive, time-wasting and
potentially even more harmful (e.g. inadvertently broadening the scope of DRM)
to propose alternative solutions to the purported non-DRM use cases in order to
make a point that has already been made.

I stand by my request for this bug to be WONTFIXed.

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Received on Friday, 15 March 2013 16:16:15 UTC