- From: Duncan Bayne <dhgbayne@fastmail.fm>
- Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:23:15 -0700
- To: Jeff Jaffe <jeff@w3.org>, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>, Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net>, Gervase Markham <gerv@mozilla.org>, public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
> An open source CDM system would be breakable. If one defines > "usefulness" to be "unbreakable" then you could not have a useful open > source CDM system. Although many argue that even closed CDMs are > breakable, so breakability might not be a distinction between open and > closed CDMs. All DRM systems are breakable. The difference is that an open-source CDM would be so trivially breakable that no major content provider would embrace it. The fact that every single DRM system in common use is closed-source is significant evidence for that assertion. (Incidentally, my background includes co-founding a company that designed, produced and sold a software DRM system for .NET applications. My opposition to the inclusion of DRM in HTML is based upon very solid technical and commercial experience in this area.) -- Duncan Bayne ph: +61 420817082 | web: http://duncan-bayne.github.com/ | skype: duncan_bayne
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