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

On 6/5/2013 10:40 AM, piranna@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > I agree it is not policy.  But it is also the case that EME does not 
> stop publishers from publishing to the Web regardless of the software 
> they use.  And EME does not stop access to the web from any kind of 
> hardware that can connect to the Internet.
> >
> Except related directly to EME... up to this point, it seems probably 
> you will not freely be able to publish or access to EME-CDM based 
> content without requesting permission to third party elements or 
> special (signed) hardware... I truly believe this conflict with the 
> previously remarked W3C statements...
>

It is true that the you will not be freely able to publish EME-CDM 
content without requesting permission.

But the passage in question is "We should be able to publish regardless 
of the software we use".  It does not say anything about being able to 
publish EME-CDM content.  I would tell such publishers that they get 
their freedom to publish by simply not using DRM.  Of course, if they 
want to use DRM - that's their choice - but then they lose their 
freedom.  (This is true today by the way, even without EME.)

Received on Wednesday, 5 June 2013 14:48:46 UTC