Re: HTML5 and DRM - A Middle Path?

> one can construct a web site that is not usable by devices without a vibration ability, or by people unable to detect vibration.

If so, it's a flaw of the web page programmer by not allowing an
alternative, not of the API. Vibration is a so marginal functionality
(only mobile devices) that if done so, it only would means that it was
done on purpose or by a bad design decision, but that's a diferent
discussion.


> The web has (for the most part) relied on an abstract layer of screen+audio+keyboard+pointer, which can be instantiated in various physical ways.  I agree that piercing this veil of abstraction is dangerous, be it for software capabilities or hardware.
>
I agree, I found yesterday that HTML doesn't support to have several
mouse or keyboards attached to one computer... :-/


>> EME would allow to play CDMs in a binary blob, but if it's not available for my OS, what's suposed I should do? Use a diferent OS? Wouldn't it be better that W3C mandates that CDMs specifications are available so they could be implemented by third parties (me)? This would reduce the amount of available CDM mechanism, but also would allow to have a common base available from everywhere and also they will be the best, flawless ones…
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> It's been discussed before, but there is a trust chain involved in content delivery.  The distributor has to trust that the client software is abiding by their desires to make it difficult enough to make an unprotected copy.  If the client interface (the network transactions) is open to anyone to implement, it's hard to see how to do that.  The SUN OMC took the approach of using code signatures, I think.
>
Users don't trust the distributors, and distributors don't trust their
users (that it's worst), and it doesn't appear solutions that convince
to the other side. I believe this discussion will drive us to a tie
then... :-/


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