Re: Netflix HTML5 player in IE 11 on Windows 8.1

> Should the web be restricted to media that is unprotected, or not? 
> That's a debatable point, for sure.  I think that is a poor choice, in
> that it relegates the web to only referencing what the owners feel is
> 'low value' content.

You're begging the question, there.  Many content owners have chosen to
release their high-value content without DRM; you're assuming that will
be true for all providers, for all time.

Also, whether or not the W3C endorses EME is moot; browser implementors
are building it now (and, note, hooking it to hardware-implemented DRM -
the very antithesis of the open web).

> If we could keep our principles pure and the high-value content
> web-accessible, we'd all be happy; but we don't currently see how to do
> that.

Could you please define 'web-accessible'?  My understanding is that
existing implementations of EME are used to restrict content to devices
with specific operating systems and in some cases hardware decryption. 
I genuinely fail to understand how you see that EME is a win for web
accessible content here.

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Received on Sunday, 7 July 2013 05:43:29 UTC