Re: Is EME usable regardless of the software/hardware I use ?

• From: <piranna@gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 12:09:58 +0200
• To: Emmanuel Revah <stsil@manurevah.com>
• Cc: "public-restrictedmedia@w3.org" <public-restrictedmedia@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <CAKfGGh1sXSKvxs2AafrJR0L9MR1zTOTLNK7jz-+eofqb-imp3Q@mail.gmail.com>

> Would this mean that to access the web (the part of the web defined by the
> W3C) I may need to have specific hardware ?  Would "any kind of hardware
> that can connect to the Internet" no longer be true.
> Will it become possible, using EME, to limit access to the web based on
> hardware ?
>
If CDMs are finally implemented in hardware and EME is abused (and
probably it will be) yes, access to the web will be hardware dependent
and all of us will be required to "upgrade".


--
"Si quieres viajar alrededor del mundo y ser invitado a hablar en un
monton de sitios diferentes, simplemente escribe un sistema operativo
Unix."
– Linus Tordvals, creador del sistema operativo Linux

Received on Wednesday, 5 June 2013 10:10:49 UTC