Re: Encrypted Media proposal (was RE: ISSUE-179: av_param - Chairs Solicit Alternate Proposals or Counter-Proposals)

On 2/23/12 4:42 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> Commercial video can be done right now. People make livings off of
> Youtube, for an extreme example, doing short films.  There are
> increasing numbers of examples of long-form video making good money
> when distributed without DRM, such as Louis CK's most recent comedy
> tour video.

Louis CK had no contractual obligations, his team failed to save money 
using P2P torrents and despite a million dollars in income, they still 
haven't spent $1k to get it subtitled. Just saying.

They did use DRM via Amazon tokens timing out. It's similar to Netflix's 
method.

Anyway, apples to oranges.

-Charles

Received on Friday, 24 February 2012 00:51:42 UTC