[Bug 27055] Surfacing license to the user

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=27055

--- Comment #5 from Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> ---
(In reply to Domenic Denicola from comment #4)
> I think discussing this as "fraud" is taking the wrong approach. We're
> mostly interested in the user getting this extra transparency into what
> permissions they are granted.
> 
> You may be right that this is not useful to the majority of users---in the
> same way the majority of users do not actually click the lock icon in their
> address bar and inspect their SSL certificate---but it's important that the
> capability is present.

Again, the relationship between the restrictions in the license and the
restrictions of the product that has been purchased are not straightforward, so
it is not clear to me that exposing this information would be useful even to
that minority who are interested. In fact, often it might be quite mis-leading.

Users can easily judge whether the restrictions being applied match the
restrictions advertised, just as they can judge whether the content or the
content quality matches what was advertised.

It would be like surfacing the bitrate of the first few seconds of the video so
that the user can check that they are really getting HD. It just doesn't work
because there are many reasons why that bitrate could be less than normal HD
bitrates: maybe the first few seconds are mostly blank screens / titles, maybe
the first few seconds aren't actually HD because they contain some logo /
interstitial but the actual content is HD etc.

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Received on Friday, 17 October 2014 17:50:16 UTC