- From: Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net>
- Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 18:40:46 -0400
- To: public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
Per Jeff (Jaffe), and Ian (Jacobs) requests on the blog post [1], let me restate something I said in the comments. "Content Protection", "DRM", "Restricted Media" are basically systems where we decided to obfuscate the content in a way where the barrier of access is part of the content. They are usually created for forbidding uncontrolled distributions of a content. Most of the arguments, I see pushed by proponents of "content protection" mechanisms are based on 1. "charging for accessing the content" 2. "compensating creative work" Both of these are orthogonal to obfuscating content. 1. Charging for accessing the content is already possible. See all site where you have to pay to be able to access the site. DRM-free books, musics, you order online. 2. Having better ways to pay (user)/charge (creator) for creative work is indeed a very interesting issue to solve and has never been really cracked down. It is also a minefield because of banks lobby, international laws around money, etc. But it's a much more interesting issue to solve for the Web. Work attempts have been done in the past at W3C [2] There is currently work going on at Mozilla [3] [1]: http://www.w3.org/QA/2013/05/perspectives_on_encrypted_medi [2]: http://www.w3.org/ECommerce/ [3]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/WebPayment -- Karl Dubost http://www.la-grange.net/karl/
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