Re: Formal Objection to Working Group Decision to publish Encrypted Media Extensions specification as a First Public Working Draft (FPWD) from Mark Watson on 2013-05-31 (public-html-media@w3.org from May 2013)

From: Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 17:45:11 -0700
To: Kornel Lesiński <kornel@geekhood.net>
Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, "public-html-admin@w3.org" <public-html-admin@w3.org>, public-html-media@w3.org, jeff@w3.org
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On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Kornel LesiĹski <kornel@geekhood.net>wrote:

> On Fri, 31 May 2013 01:25:27 +0100, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>
> wrote:
>
>  The term "reduce" implies a comparison. What are you comparing with ? Not
>> the situation today, I assume, since EME does not make anything less open
>> than it is today with proprietary plugins.
>>
>
> IANAL, but I think that thanks to Silverlight's NPAPI today I can write my
> own browser that plays Netflix without violating the DMCA,


Except that it's not your browser that would be playing the content, it
would be Microsoft Silverlight, which doesn't work on many platforms anyway.


> but I can't legally reverse-engineer ChromeOS's CDM API and use its
> Netflix CDM in browser other than Chrome or in ChromiumOS.
>
> --
> regards, Kornel
>

Received on Friday, 31 May 2013 00:45:39 UTC