Re: What change could we make? (was Re: Letter on DRM in HTML)

Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> wrote:
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>On Jun 21, 2013, at 7:35 AM, Nikos Roussos
><comzeradd@mozilla-community.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2013-06-21 at 02:42 -0400, Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
>>> Nikos's statement "... EME [...] contradicts with Open Web
>principles"
>>> is rousing but doesn't say which principles those are nor
>>> how they are necessarily contradicted.
>>>
>>> One principle of the open web is "anyone can publish",
>>> Can we design an EME system where that is true, and anyone can
>>> publish content using it?
>>
>> Also "anyone can consume", regardless of "their hardware, software,
>> network infrastructure (...)"
>>
>> So for start that's one principle of Open Web (and W3's own mission)
>> that EME is contradicting, since it seems that it will require users
>to
>> trust binary blobs from content providers in order to be functional.
>
>As an aside, and I feel like a broken record here, the intention is
>that the binary blobs come from your chosen browser or OS implementor.

That's not answering to my argument though. Having to trust a binary blob
in order to access digital content (whoever its provider is) is contradicting
Open Web principles and W3C's mission. 

Received on Saturday, 22 June 2013 22:23:45 UTC