Re: Chromebook DRM specification

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> wrote:

> We don't have any requirement that all browsers/devices implement the same
> DRM. This isn't like video codecs. As long as they all support the same
> encryption format (for example ISO Common Encryption as described in the
> specification or WebM encryption) we can deliver the same files to all
> devices with the same interaction model (as defined by the specification).
> There's some per-DRM back end work, but this is manageable and a great
> improvement on what we have today.
>
Aquiring a license from every DRM vendor is not feasible for web authors.
Contacting Widevine alone is also not feasible to not being contactable.
Hence HTML-DRM excludes web authors.