Re: Netflix HTML5 player in IE 11 on Windows 8.1

It's not a problem! For the vast majority of cases, essentially free reproduction and dissemination of data is a fantastic boon to humanity.

The issue is that there is one particular business model that is broken by this revolution. A valid and moral goal - payment for creative works - can no longer be achieved by relying on media scarcity. 

Instead of accepting this and finding a new business model, some companies are trying to turn back the economic clock with an artificial scarcity generator: DRM. 

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----- Reply message -----
From: "David Singer" <singer@apple.com>
To: "cobaco" <cobaco@freemen.be>
Cc: <public-restrictedmedia@w3.org>
Subject: Netflix HTML5 player in IE 11 on Windows 8.1
Date: Tue, Jul 9, 2013 6:15 PM



On Jul 8, 2013, at 22:25 , cobaco <cobaco@freemen.be> wrote:

> On Sunday, Sun, 2013/07/07, David Singer wrote:
>> nor will high-value content be accessible through the web
> 
> What makes you believe it's still high value?

as I explained in other emails, I use this as a short-hand for "content that the content-owner believes to be of high-value".  

> Making copies of information, and sharing that copy with somebody (or a 
> umpteen somebodies) on the other side of the world is now -literally-
> childsplay

Indeed, you have put your finger on one of the problems.


David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.