- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 09:13:46 +0200
- To: Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com>
- Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Christian Kaiser <kaiserc@google.com>, "<public-html@w3.org>" <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> wrote: > As I and others have pointed out multiple times, this is not a decision that > is in Cox's hands. It is a requirement placed on Cox by 3rd party content > owners. The requirement is very simple: in order to distribute content X > from content provider P, where P requires that X be protected by DRM/CP > system S, then Cox must ensure that what is delivered to its customers is > S(X). Of course Cox (and other commercial video providers) routinely talk > with content owners and may suggest they choose ClearKey for S, but we can > only make that suggestion, and not mandate or enforce it. Why should HTML accommodate your use of precisely S when you've "chosen" to agree to over-constraining terms? Why do you believe this should be our problem instead of being your problem? (Not a rhetorical question even if it might look like one.) (I put "chosen" in scare-quotes to acknowledge that I don't approve the "own choice" rhetoric Mark used in the context of CDM integration terms.) -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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