- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:00:59 -0500
- To: public-html@w3.org
On 2/28/12 12:04 PM, Mark Watson wrote: > I'm just trying to make it easy for > customers to watch TV shows and movies online, legally, on as many devices and in as convenient a way as possible. I think that's a shared goal so far; the one additional caveat I would have is that in an ideal world a user should be able to do this on a device of their choosing, including a device the user built himself (or something like OLPC, etc; devices that happen to be produced by someone who is not an established player in the device-making space). Or put another way, we want to avoid creating barriers to entry into the device-making space, if we can. That means avoiding unnecessary restrictions on both the hardware and the software of potential new devices. Again, it's not immediately clear to me how to reconcile that with the current licensing regime of TV and movie content, just like it's not clear to me how to reconcile that licensing regime with fair use rights.... -Boris
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