Re: EME & User Agents

I must admit I do not see the relationship with EME or the EFF's proposal

Ivan

> On 16 May 2016, at 22:00, TB Dinesh <dinesh@servelots.com> wrote:
> 
> I came across this, and wonder about restrictions on Web Annotation provisions.
> As according to the article, EME is a precursor to 3rd parties bringing
> restrictions on user agent behavior.
> 
> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/open-letter-members-w3c-advisory-committee <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/open-letter-members-w3c-advisory-committee>
> 
> ...
> e.g.,
> if the W3C defines a data-type, anyone can make a user-agent that can receive and render that data. The people designing user agents might do things that the people running the servers disapprove of (for example, blocking pop-up ads), but that's not illegal -- so long as you don't break the law, the company serving the data can't dictate how the companies making the clients must handle it.


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