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

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

Joe Steele <steele@adobe.com> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Joe Steele <steele@adobe.com> ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> 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.

You may be thinking only of streaming video in the VOD (video on demand) model.
There are other use cases for streaming video, e.g. low latency live/near-live
events, variable bitrate, large scale viewing, etc. This method for delivering
content is useful entirely independent of whether or not DRM is in use.

> 
> 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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