[Bug 20960] EME is not limited to video.

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20960

--- Comment #13 from Fred Andrews <fredandw@live.com> ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> Discussed in the telcon. Resolved Won't Fix.
> http://www.w3.org/2013/02/26-html-media-minutes.html
> 
> We believe that the spec is as constrained to the HTMLMediaElement as it can
> be. The beginning of the abstract says: "This proposal extends
> HTMLMediaElement providing APIs to control playback of protected content."
> We don't believe there is any text that can be further added to the spec to
> constrain what implementers can code into their user agents.

Clearly the EME specification text can be tightened to exclude
content outside video and audio.  For trivial example: "This
proposal extends HTMLMediaElement providing APIs to control
playback of ONLY protected VIDEO and AUDIO content."

There may well be technical restrictions that would be applicable.
For example, for content requiring only a low level of protection
it is likely possible to limit the back channel.  The CDM could
also be sandboxed to provide protection.

Closing this bug at this point hardly shows a good faith effort
to address the matter.

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Received on Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:37:38 UTC