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

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

--- Comment #8 from Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> ---
A 'streaming' service such as ours does not allow the storage of the content
for later viewing, even though the platform may be capable of this. It's just
not part of the service we offer - the user hasn't paid for that, has agreed in
the terms of conditions that they won't do that and we haven't bought the
license for that.

There's no technical or political issue here - it's just the business decision
we've made and the service we offer. We could spend money on licenses that
allow storage and offline viewing, but we feel that money is better spend on
offering more variety of content. A competitor could take a different view and
the customers would decide what they preferred.

There's no 'artificial' construct here that you can expect to change just due
to technical capabilities.

Returning to the subject of the bug, as I mentioned before it's not true that
*EME* requires that license servers be available to view the content. A
*service* such as ours may require that - for the reasons above - but another
service may not. In our case, with respect to this issue, EME is doing nothing
more than making it difficult for users to do something they've already agreed
not to by signing up to the service.

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Received on Friday, 22 February 2013 03:50:44 UTC