[Bug 20964] EME depends on servers with a finite life.

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20964

--- Comment #5 from Fred Andrews <fredandw@live.com> ---
Firstly, the notion of 'streaming' is an artificial construct of the DRM
industry that has no technical foundation and is foreign to the working of the
web browser.  Web browsers are free to store content to their capacity for
presentation at the will of the user.  If videos content authors wish to
present content on the web browser then they need to respect the operation of
the platform rather than attempting to re-purpose it for their own market
segmentation goals.

Secondly, the possible existence of one 'unrestricted' CDM model does not
discount the fact that the EME interface frustrates the viewing of content
without a live server.  Further, we need to keep in mind the legal constraint
that in some jurisdictions normal web browser storage and presentation
operations that works around such 'frustrations' may well be illegal and we
have a duty of care to web users not to expose them to such threats.

In summary, the technical existence of any mode of operation that frustrates
the viewing of content after server has been decommissioned is a problem.

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Received on Tuesday, 19 February 2013 20:53:58 UTC